Row keys should be byte[]s, not Strings
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Key: CASSANDRA-767
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-767
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Stu Hood
Priority: Critical
Fix For: 0.7
This issue has come up numerous times, and we've dealt with a lot of pain
because of it: let's get it knocked out.
Keys being Java Strings can make it painful to use Cassandra from other
languages, encoding binary data like integers as Strings is very inefficient,
and there is a disconnect between our column data types and the plain String
treatment we give row keys.
The key design decision that needs discussion is: Should we apply the column
AbstractTypes to row keys? If so, how do Partitioners change?
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