can hbase api help in ranking?

[T Vinod Gupta <tv...@readypulse.com>]

hi,
im pretty sure that this is not supported but still checking. lets say my
column names are sorted by some score. that way, when i do column gets, i
get data in sorted order of scores. but what if i know the score already
and i need to know the position of that column among other columns that
match the filter? so in short, given a column filter and a column
qualifier, is it possible to get the position of that qualifier in the
matches?

thanks