I am pretty sure there is no way Ican sensible map the row key to anything other than binary but maybe thecolumns - which are longs and the values which are strings can be mapped totheir according Hive datatypes.I include an extract of what a row looks like in HBase shell below:Thank you,/Davidhbase(main):009:0> scan hits"ROW COLUMN+CELL\x00\x00\x06\xB1H\x89N\xC3\xA5\x83\x0F\xDD\x1E\xAE&\xDC co