public static byte[] toBytes(BigDecimal val) {
    byte[] valueBytes = val.unscaledValue().toByteArray();
    byte[] result = new byte[valueBytes.length + SIZEOF_INT];
    int offset = putInt(result, 0, val.scale());
    putBytes(result, offset, valueBytes, 0, valueBytes.length);
    return result;
  }
Convert a BigDecimal value to a byte array
hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java