I think the following JIRA is related: HBASE-8201 Implement serialization strategies
Cheers On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM, byte array <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > A rather rudimentary thing. I have noticed that sometimes HBase shell > shows double values in a readable format and sometimes as array of (octal > thus unreadable) 8 bytes . > This happens when I write them into the table from a java client: > eg. > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.**Bytes.toBytes(1.23); > In this case I have problems reading/mapping the value in Pig script and > CDH beeswax/hue. > > I made a temporary workaround by writing the doubles using Pig's class: > eg. > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.**hbase.HBaseBinaryConverter.** > toBytes(1.23); > > On the contrary, When I aggregate and store doubles from Pig script into > some other table, they are readable in the HBase shell, as if they were > strings and also readable by Pig and other programs. > I wonder what is the proper way to write doubles into HBase table from a > Java client? > > Thanks. >
