I am not sure if this can helps - https://github.com/ndimiduk/orderly
This API supports negative keys, as far as I know. You can give it a try, its simple to implement your keys using this API Regards Prav On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Chaitanya <chaitanya.ck...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Ramkrishna, > > There is one more problem, i.e. I don't have the rights to add anything to > the hbase jar. > The problem with writing a custom comparator is that we have to add it to > the jar so that its available to all the hbase region servers. > Please correct me if I am wrong. > Thanks > > > > ----- > Regards, > Chaitanya > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/Filters-failing-to-compare-negative-numbers-int-float-double-or-long-tp4057268p4057279.html > Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >