On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Jerry Lam <[email protected]> wrote: > I need some advises on a problem that I'm facing using HBase. How can I > efficiently query a version of a column when I don't know exactly the > version I'm looking for? > For instance, I want to query a column with timestamp that is less or equal > to N, if version = N is available, return it to me. Otherwise, I want the > version that is closest to the version N (order by descending of > timestamp). That is if version = N - 1 exists, I want it to be returned. >
Have you tried a timerange w/ minStamp of N and maxStamp of HConstants#LATEST_TIMESTAMP Long.MAX_VALUE) returning one version only (setMaxVersion(1))? St.Ack
