On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:38 PM, James Taylor <jtay...@salesforce.com > >wrote: > > > So row key order won't match the natural sort order? > > > > With the "Legacy" types that are based on Bytes, you get whatever you get. > Strings and pass-through byte[]'s work like normal; positive integers will > work, but not negatives; &c. HBase would not ship out-of-the-box with > general purpose order-preserving types, but you'd have the API and be able > to implement your own. > > So what would be the incentive using the new API be? And then when the implementation changes -- it serializes in sort-order -- will it confuse? Thanks Nick, St.Ack
