Looks like you should be able to do so by passing your own comparator to: public SingleColumnValueFilter(final byte [] family, final byte [] qualifier,
final CompareOp compareOp, final ByteArrayComparable comparator) { Cheers On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Frank Luo <j...@merkleinc.com> wrote: > I don't think it is possible, but would like to confirm with smart folks > out there. > > Supposing I have a cell storing an integer but in string presentation. For > example, here is how I put a value of 200: > > put.add(family, qualifier, Bytes.toBytes("200")); > > Now, I want to scan with a filter that only return if the value is larger > than 250. Is that possible? > > Thanks in advance > > Frank >