[HBASE-5612] Data types for HBase values

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mikhail Gryzykhin
• Created: 21/Mar/12 18:43
• Updated: 13/Jun/22 15:38
• Resolved: 13/Jun/22 15:38

Description

In many real-life applications all values in a certain column family are of a certain data type, e.g. 64-bit integer. We could specify that in the column descriptor and enable data type-specific compression such as variable-length integer encoding.