How they are compared depends on the partitioner you are using. For BOP, it is lexical by byte order.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Bill Speirs <bill.spe...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the type of a Row Key? Can you define how they are compared? > > I ask because I'm using TimeUUIDs as my row keys, but when I make a > call to get a range of row keys (get_range in phpcassa) I have to > specify the UTF8 range of '' to '99999999-9999-9999-9999-999999999999' > instead of the TimeUUID range of > '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' to > 'ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff'. > > This works, but feels wrong/inefficient... thoughts? > > Thanks... > > Bill- > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
