add binary comparator
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Key: AVRO-108
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-108
Project: Avro
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: java
Reporter: Doug Cutting
Hadoop MapReduce performance benefits greatly if data may be compared without
deserializing to an object, but rather by examining its serialized bytes
directly. Such "raw" comparators are typically written by hand in Hadoop, and
are very fragile.
With Avro it is possible to generically compare two serialized byte sequences
if their schema is known. This should work for any Avro data, regardless of
how it was serialized or how it will be deserialized.
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