There can be some odd effects with this because the keys are not uniformly distributed. Beware if you are using pre-split tables because the region traffic can be pretty unbalanced if you do a naive split.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Chris Tarnas <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using base-64 encoding when I use my hashes as rowkeys - makes > them printable while still being fairly dense, IIRC a 64bit key should be > only 11 characters.
