public static boolean matchingType(ExtendedCell a, ExtendedCell b) {
    return a.getTypeByte() == b.getTypeByte();
  }
Finds if the start of the qualifier part of the Cell matches <code>buf</code>
@param left       the cell with which we need to match the qualifier
@param startsWith the serialized keyvalue format byte[]
@return true if the qualifier have same staring characters, false otherwise
hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/PrivateCellUtil.java