[HBASE-7071] Allow for user defined Data in HBase Table & ColumnFamily definitions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.2
• Component/s: HFile
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Hans Uhlig
• Created: 30/Oct/12 16:39
• Updated: 14/Jun/22 22:36
• Resolved: 14/Jun/22 22:35

Description

Allow for arbitrary user data in HBase Table & Column Family definitions.

Use case:
Allowing multiple applications to dynamically access data in HBase tables and fetch schema information from table or column family directly.