"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" . . . . .