You can specify reverse order through the API when you slice the cols so I don't think you need to write a comparator.
Bill- On Feb 4, 2011 9:45 PM, "Aditya Narayan" <ady...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks Aaron, Yes I can put the column names without using the userId in the timeline row, and when I want to retrieve the row corresponding to that column name, I will attach the userId to get the row key. Yes I'll store it as a long & I guess I'll have to write with a custom comparator type (ReversedIntegerType) to sort those longs in descending order. Regards Aditya On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:24 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > IMHO If you know t...