* Handles missing "java" with an error message.
* Adds a check_output method for users running on Python 2.6.
* Prints an error when importing argparse fails (third party module on Python 2.6).

[build] changed checkstyle linelength to 120

Added editorconfig for easy style conformance.

More info at http://editorconfig.org - this makes it easy for editors to
automatically perform the right indentation.

[S3] Redo pr 372

Update latest version and examples to 0.5.0

Also added direct link to the latest release page for easy downloading.

Added note about Maven 3 per issue #406.

[core] Record latency of successful and failed operations separately

[core] Added variance calculation of histogram latency reporting.

[vcs] Added support for Vim and Emacs in .gitignore

Conflicts:
	core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/measurements/OneMeasurementHistogram.java

Define constants for the property strings.

- version number fix
- DB methods return Status objects.

This reverts commit 0e5866eb.

Restores #372

[googledatastore] Add a Google Datastore client

- Move the doc (code comment) to workload_template
- Minor changes in propery parsing logic and log to System.Err;

[core] Incoporate CR comment

Missed one comment before.

And make it configurable.

Specifically:

1. Remove trailing spaces,
2. Replace TAB with spaces,
3. Break lines > 80 characters
4. Misc code alignment.

No functional code change. use ?w=1 on the URL to view non-whitespace changes.

Revert "added S3 storage binding"

[S3] added S3 storage binding

Closes #413 

Addressing the last CR comment.

[googledatastore] Add cause to DBException

Copyright statement, better exception messages, etc.

1. Move documentation from the properties file to the README.md
2. Addressed a couple of comments in the code.
3. Added the checkstyle plugin and addressed all the violation (except
the TODO comment violation. I'd like to keep a TODO item in the code).

[googledatastore] Output debug logs in one line instead of multiple lines.

Will implement scan separately in the next pull request.

Add support to allow users to group entities in two different ways, and add documentations for the overall googledatastore.properties file.

Add a DB client for Google Cloud Datastore. This initial commit includes implementation of all CRUD operations (modulo scan), and integration into the rest of YCSB (pom.xml changes, etc)

Next few commits will include Scan/query support, single entity group support, and better documentation.

[elasticsearch] Checkstyle updates for Elasticsearch.

[redis] Checkstyle updates for the Redis binding.

[voldemort] Update binding to use the new Status class and also checkstyle updates.

[core] passing full fieldset for verification

When dataintegrity and readallfields are both true, pass the full field
set to db.read() so that the field values can be verified.

Fixes #496

[core] added return codes to VERIFY

[jdbc] removed semicolons from cached statements