Use filters

Bigtable provides the following types of filters:

• Limiting filters, which control which rows or cells are included in the response.
• Modifying filters, which affect the data or metadata for individual cells.
• Composing filters, which allow you to combine multiple filters into one.

This page describes each Bigtable filter in detail and shows how to use each type of filter using the Cloud Client Libraries. Before you read this page, read Filters.

Additional samples showing how to use filters to read multiple rows of data are available on Reading data.

Data for examples

The examples on this page assume that you're storing time-series data for smartphones and tablets, and that the following data has been written to a table. The table has two column families, stats_summary and cell_plan. Each column family has three columns.