What is this \x00\x00\x00\x00 thing. What does it represent ? How to
interpret it ? Is '\x' some kind of delimiter between 2 bytes ?
Does it mean size of rowkey is 5 Bytes ?
Since HBase data is untyped, the shell tries to render everything as a
String. When it gets bytes that don't match
Praveenesh, in addition to what Joey already said in another response to your
question, see these chapters in the HBase book.
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#schema
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#datamodel
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