hbase-5409 book.xml - adding section on sort-order in Data Model chapter

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Doug Meil 2012-02-15 20:47:30 +00:00
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<section xml:id="dm.sort">
<title>Sort Order</title>
<para>All data model operations HBase return data in sorted order. First by row,
then by ColumnFamily, followed by column qualifier, and finally timestamp (sorted
in reverse, so newest records are returned first).
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="dm.column.metadata">
<title>Column Metadata</title>
<para>There is no store of column metadata outside of the internal KeyValue instances for a ColumnFamily.