Re: LongString

2010-09-01 Thread Tyler Hobbs
Hey Kevin, It looks to me like they use LongString to sort primarily by the Long, then secondarily by the String portion of a "LongString". I believe all you would need to do to implement this is to add a class to src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal . I would recommend copying L

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2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Irwig
Hi, I came across this presentation (link below) by Sarkissian (no first name given) at Digg about their use of Cassandra. On page 27 he says "Custom comparators turn out to be key" and mentions in the next few slides a LongString (actually once a LongString the other times a Long