Re: Hbase rowkey question ?

2011-06-10 Thread Joey Echeverria
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

RE: Hbase rowkey question ?

2011-06-10 Thread Doug Meil
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 -Original Message- From: praveenesh kumar [mailto:praveen...@gmail.com]