Re: Cassandra basics

2010-07-23 Thread themana...@juno.com
Sonia, If you haven't visited the site below, I think it does the best job of explaining what Cassandra is all about: http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model Consider a group of ColumFamilies within a Keyspace like a group of tables in a database. CompareWith tells Cassa

Re: Adding TimeUUID as Column Name using a PAST time?

2010-07-23 Thread themana...@juno.com
Disregard... Something was wrong with my instance to where I could not insert anything. Since I'm in early development I just re-installed Cassandra and the TimeUUID of a past time inserts just fine. -- Original Message -- From: "themana...@juno.com&

Adding TimeUUID as Column Name using a PAST time?

2010-07-23 Thread themana...@juno.com
I apologize if this is a dumb question...but is it possible to create a column with a TimeUUID in the past? I've been trying to do so, but my records are not being saved. I have date/times from some historical MySQL data that I've converted to a TimeUUID through a modded Python uuid1() function