You should use the full type names, e.g. create column family MyColumnFamily with comparator=UTF8Type;
2012/3/26 puneet loya <puneetl...@gmail.com> > It is giving errors like " Unable to find abstract-type class > 'org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.utf8' " > > and java.lang.RuntimeException: > org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse > 'catalogueId' as hex bytes > > where catalogueId is a column that has utf8 as its data type. they may be > just synactical errors.. > > Please suggest if u can help me out on dis?? > -- With kind regards, Robin Verlangen www.robinverlangen.nl