HBase: specify VERSIONS when creating a table using the Java API

Question

I know that we can do this from the hbase shell as follows:

create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 5} 

I could not find the corresponding option in the HTableDesctiptor in the Java API. Any ideas how to do this?

Answer 1

Maximum versions and other parameters of type ttl are specified for each column family. So the maximum versions are on HColumnDescriptor .

Answer 2

I leave the sample code here based on your example as a reference.

 HTableDescriptor descriptor = new HTableDescriptor("t1"); HColumnDescriptor cd = new HColumnDescriptor("f1"); cd.setMaxVersions(5); descriptor.addFamily(cd);