j256/ormlite-jdbc — pull request #1 by zajac (2013-09-19 15:42:12+00:00)
Title: STRING_BYTES column in HSQL: use VARBINARY type instead of BINARY.

according to
http://hsqldb.org/doc/guide/sqlgeneral-chapt.html#sgc_binary_types
BINARY is a very short thing.