Re: A few quick questions to help me design a better schema..

2011-01-10 Thread Tyler Hobbs
> > Though in general I would say that it is worth considering. In > particular if you have certain data that is accessed a lot more > frequently than other data (especially if the "other data" is large), > the improved cache locality of keeping the frequently accessed data > separate can be high (

Re: A few quick questions to help me design a better schema..

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Schuller
>> 4. ) Does the larger no of column families has any impact on the >> performance(I read about it somewhere)? Should information for a particular >> row key be split in multiple column families according to the specific query >> demands or should all data related to a particular row key be kept to

Re: A few quick questions to help me design a better schema..

2011-01-09 Thread Tyler Hobbs
> > 1. ) If certain columns in a row get mutated too frequently or if new > columns are added to the row frequently then does the reads of old columns > that rarely get changed is also affected ? In other words, is the > performance of reads of almost infrequently changing columns in a row where >

A few quick questions to help me design a better schema..

2011-01-09 Thread asil klin
1. ) If certain columns in a row get mutated too frequently or if new columns are added to the row frequently then does the reads of old columns that rarely get changed is also affected ? In other words, is the performance of reads of almost infrequently changing columns in a row where some columns