[HBASE-733] Enhance Cell so that it can contain multiple values at multiple timestamps

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: io
• Assignee: Jim Kellerman
• Reporter: Jim Kellerman
• Created: 09/Jul/08 01:03
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 21:13
• Resolved: 18/Jul/08 17:58

Description

Enhance Cell so that it can contain multiple values at multiple timestamps.

There are a number of issues (for which this is a blocker) which require returning multiple values for the same column-family:member for multiple timestamps.

This issue lays the groundwork so that the other issues can be implemented without major API changes

Issue Links

• blocks: HBASE-33 Add a HTable get/obtainScanner method that retrieves all versions of a particular column and row between two timestamps
• blocks: HBASE-31 Add means of getting the timestamps for all cell versions: e.g. long [] getVersions(row, column)
• blocks: HBASE-44 [hbase] Method to get a number of timestamped versions of a row all at once