I have a 'long' number that I get by using HTable.'incrementColumnValue'. This long is used as the qualifier id on a columnFamily.
Now I need to add a prefix 'status' so that I can store another value in the same family. How should I consider String vs long sorting? So right now: colFamily: id1_asLong = val1 colFamily: id2_asLong = val2 colFamily: id3_asLong = val3 colFamily: id4_asLong = val4 and in addition colFamily: status_id1_asString = val5 colFamily: status_id2_asString = val6 colFamily: status_id3_asString = val7 colFamily: status_id4_asString = val8 To make sure that 'id' values are sorted and accessed sequentially, should I change my design so that the id1_asLong is stored as id1_asString? When I do my Get, I always get id1_asLong and status_id1_asString together. Thanks.
