When doing a get or scan, are the read order of columns within a particular family always going to be the same?
For example, if I have two columns within a family, ColumnNameA and ColumnNameB, will ColumnNameA always come first in read order? If so, is this byte ordered on the column name qualifier the same as row ids? I'm working on a scenario where I often want to read a small subset of values from a particular row. While it seems like this might be a good use for a separate column family, I was thinking that HBASE-3149<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3149>might cause me problems because this information is magnitudes smaller than the rest of the family. I was thinking that if I made sure these values were first in disk order, I could pull this data without making HBase iterate over 1000's of other columns. Possible? Thoughts? Thanks, Jacques
