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junegunn / hbase-jruby

A JRuby binding for HBase
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Handling null values #15

Closed junegunn closed 11 years ago

junegunn commented 11 years ago

options

  1. Do not store null values at all
    • pros. Space-efficient. Trivial to implement.
    • cons. Qualifier-as-data idiom not possible. No column vs. Null column?
  2. Store empty byte arrays
    • pros. Qualifier-as-data idiom
    • cons. Empty string vs. null ?
  3. ?