Re: just open sourced Orderly -- a row key schema system (composite keys, etc) for use with HBase

[Andrew Purtell]

Michael (and GotoMetrics),

Thank you for opening this up!

Best regards,

    - Andy

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via 
Tom White)


--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Michael Dalton <mwdal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm with a startup, GotoMetrics, doing things with Hadoop and I've
> gotten permission to open source Orderly -- our row key schema system
> for use in projects like HBase. Orderly allows you to serialize common
> data types (long, double, bigdecimal, etc) or structs/records of these
> types to byte arrays, and ensures that the byte arrays sort in the
> same natural order as the data type. You may then use the byte arrays
> as keys in HBase (or any sorted, byte-typed key-value store).
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