Is there a way to view multiple versions of a cell in the HBase shell?

2013-03-07 Thread Jonathan Natkins
It seems that the answer is no, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something. As far as I can tell, scanning a column on a time range returns just the most recent value within that time range, rather than all the values in the range. Thanks, Natty -- http://www.wibidata.com office:

Re: Is there a way to view multiple versions of a cell in the HBase shell?

2013-03-07 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
Hey Natty, Have you tried setting VERSIONS? J-D On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jonathan Natkins na...@wibidata.com wrote: It seems that the answer is no, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something. As far as I can tell, scanning a column on a time range returns just the most

Re: Is there a way to view multiple versions of a cell in the HBase shell?

2013-03-07 Thread Dhaval Shah
I think you can. Try specifying the following VERSIONS = 4| Its also documented in the HBase shell documentation for Get (and I am assuming the same would apply for scans)| get Get row or cell contents; pass table name, row, and optionally a dictionary of column(s), timestamp and

Re: Is there a way to view multiple versions of a cell in the HBase shell?

2013-03-07 Thread Himanshu Vashishtha
Hey Natty, hbase(main):020:0 get 't','r', { COLUMN = 'f', VERSIONS = 2 } COLUMN CELL f:l timestamp=1362676782345, value=value2 f:l timestamp=1362676779492, value=value1 2 row(s) in

Re: Is there a way to view multiple versions of a cell in the HBase shell?

2013-03-07 Thread Jonathan Natkins
Ah, cool, that worked just fine. Missed this, because the scan documentation doesn't contain any references to VERSION: hbase(main):046:0 help 'scan' Scan a table; pass table name and optionally a dictionary of scanner specifications. Scanner specifications may include one or more of: TIMERANGE,

Re: Is there a way to view multiple versions of a cell in the HBase shell?

2013-03-07 Thread Jonathan Natkins
Filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8026 On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Jonathan Natkins na...@wibidata.com wrote: Ah, cool, that worked just fine. Missed this, because the scan documentation doesn't contain any references to VERSION: hbase(main):046:0 help 'scan' Scan a