On Thursday, May 31, 2012 10:52:33 AM, "Juan Moreno" <[email protected]> wrote: > While we are on the subject, is there a way to scan rows sorted by > timestamp, or a particular column?
No. The primary sort is on the row. If you would like your data sorted by a particular feature, create a table with that feature stored in the row. (Good key design is much more complex than this, but this concept is the basic starting point.) Billie > --------------------------------- > Juan Moreno > > On May 31, 2012 10:41 AM, "Jim Klucar" < [email protected] > wrote: > > > If its an int or long you can subtract it from the maximum int/long > before you write the row id. > > if it is a YYYYMMDD string, subtract each character from 9 before > writing the rowid. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 31, 2012, at 10:34 AM, William Slacum < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > As of now, nope! > > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:24 AM, David Medinets > > < [email protected] > wrote: > >> I don't know why it has taken me so long to ask this basic > >> question. > >> Rows are stored in Accumulo in sorted order - high to low. Is there > >> a > >> configuration option to flip the sort? My specific use case has > >> dates > >> as the record key and I want to see the oldest records first.
