[HBASE-8089] Add type support

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Component/s: Client
• Assignee: Nick Dimiduk
• Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
• Created: 13/Mar/13 16:18
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 05:49
• Resolved: 11/Jun/22 18:11

Description

This proposal outlines an improvement to HBase that provides for a set of types, above and beyond the existing "byte-bucket" strategy. This is intended to reduce user-level duplication of effort, provide better support for 3rd-party integration, and provide an overall improved experience for developers using HBase.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-9091 Update ByteRange to maintain consumer's position
• is related to: HBASE-7692 [experiment] Adopt Orderly library
• is related to: HBASE-7221 [experiment] RowKey utility class for rowkey construction

Sub-Tasks

• Update ByteRange to maintain consumer's position: Closed
• OrderedBytes: an ordered encoding strategy: Closed
• DataType: provide extensible type API: Closed
• Performance evaluation of encoding implementations: Closed
• Enhance data type API with type vs type comparison methods: Closed
• Provide client API with support for primitive types: Closed
• Type support in ImportTSV tool: Closed
• Exposing HBase DataTypes to non-Java interfaces: Closed
• Provide example of POJO encoding with protobuf: Closed
• [types] usage documentation: Closed