In 0.96+, extensible data type API is provided. Please take a look at hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/types/package-info.java
Specifically the OrderedInt16, OrderedInt32 and OrderedInt64 would be of interest to you. Cheers On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:33 AM, praveenesh kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected] > >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. > > >
