No, we're not planning to add support for retrieving old versions.
2010/3/23 Waaij, B.D. (Bram) van der <bram.vanderwa...@tno.nl>: > Are there any plans to add versioning in the near future to cassandra? > > What is the purpose of the timestamp in the current implementation? > > Best regards, > Bram > > ________________________________ > From: 张宇 [mailto:zyxt...@gmail.com] > Sent: dinsdag 23 maart 2010 14:56 > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Cc: Waaij, B.D. (Bram) van der > Subject: Re: Timestamp for versioning? > > HBase supports the version through the timestamp,but Cassandra not. > > 2010/3/23 Waaij, B.D. (Bram) van der <bram.vanderwa...@tno.nl> >> >> Hi there, >> >> Is there already support for doing something with the timestamp? I would >> like to use it as a versioning mechanism of the value belonging to a certain >> key. When i store a column with the same key, different value and different >> timestamp, would i still be able to retrieve both versions? >> >> Looking at the API I can not find such method, but perhaps I am missing >> something as I am new to cassandra. >> >> Best regards, >> Bram >> >> This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at >> http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html > > This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at > http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html >