[CASSANDRA-1205] Unify Partitioners and AbstractTypes - ASF JIRA

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Type: Improvement
Status: Resolved
Priority: Normal
Resolution: Later
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: None
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There is no good reason for Partitioners to have different semantics than AbstractTypes. Instead, we should probably have 2 partitioners: Random and Ordered, where the Ordered partitioner requires an AbstractType to be specified, defaulting to BytesType.

One solution suggested by jbellis is to have AbstractType generate a collation id (essentially, a Token) for a set of bytes.

Looking forward, we should probably consider laying the groundwork to add native support for compound row keys here as well.