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Dillon Caplin
@caplindillon 10, Apr 2023 05:45 PM
All data stored as bytes
When you specify validator, Cassandra ensures those bytes are encoded as per requirement
Then a comparator orders the column based on the ordering specific to the encoding
While composite are just byte arrays with a specific encoding, for each component it stores a two byte length followed by the byte encoded component followed by a termination bit.