RE: Super CF or two CFs?

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Mac
r or Standard CF will make little performance difference, other the super CF limitations mentioned. Aaron On 18/01/2011, at 11:14 PM, Steven Mac wrote: Thanks for the answer. It provides me the insight I'm looking for. However, I'm also a bit confused as your first paragraph seems to indica

RE: Super CF or two CFs?

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Mac
the limitations page on the wiki. Hope that helps.Aaron On 18/01/2011, at 9:29 PM, Steven Mac wrote: Some of the fields are indeed written in one shot, but others (such as label and categories) are added later, so I think the question still stands. Hugo. From: dri...@gmail.com Date: Mon,

RE: Super CF or two CFs?

2011-01-18 Thread Steven Mac
, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Steven Mac wrote: I guess I was maybe trying to simplify the question too much. In reality I do not have one volatile part, but multiple ones (say all trading data of day). Each would be a supercolumn identified by the time slot, with the individual fields as subcolumns

RE: Super CF or two CFs?

2011-01-17 Thread Steven Mac
com > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > > On 17 January 2011 22:36, Steven Mac wrote: > > Sure, consider stock data, where the stock symbol is the row key. The stock > > data consists of a rather stable part and a very volatile part, both of > > which would be a super column. The stable

RE: Super CF or two CFs?

2011-01-17 Thread Steven Mac
Subject: Re: Super CF or two CFs? From: davevi...@gmail.com To: user@cassandra.apache.org can you give an example of the data and how you'd access it?what would your expected columns (and/or supercolumns) be? Dave Viner On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Steven Mac wrote: How can I bes

Super CF or two CFs?

2011-01-17 Thread Steven Mac
How can I best map an object containing two maps, one of which is updated very frequently and the other only occasionally? a) As one super CF, which each map in a separate supercolumn and the map entries being the subcolumns? b) As two CFs, one for each map. I'd like to discuss the why behind

RE: Advice wanted on modeling

2011-01-12 Thread Steven Mac
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:29:33 +0100 > Subject: Re: Advice wanted on modeling > From: peter.schul...@infidyne.com > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > > > The application will have a large number of records, with the records > > consisting of a fixed part and a number (n) of periodic parts. > > *

Advice wanted on modeling

2011-01-11 Thread Steven Mac
Hi, I've been experimenting quite a bit with Cassandra and think I'm getting to understand it, but I would like some advice on modeling my data in Cassandra for an application I'm developing. The application will have a large number of records, with the records consisting of a fixed part and