title: UTF8Type vs. ByteType Apache Cassandra
body: <p>could you help me find out the reasons behind why "user" column family is compared with UTF8Type not ByteType and username with BytesType not UTF8Type in this article: <a href="http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/05/12/cassandra-by-example/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2010/05/12/cassandra-by-example/</a></p>