Re: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact

2014-03-27 Thread Jack Krupansky
does come down to how you will be accessing the data – query, view, update. -- Jack Krupansky From: Donald Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:22 PM To: mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact In CQL we need to decide between using

Re: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Lacefield
ys a date. > > > > Thanks, Don > > > > *From:* Jonathan Lacefield [mailto:jlacefi...@datastax.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:20 AM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact >

RE: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact

2014-03-26 Thread Donald Smith
Don From: Jonathan Lacefield [mailto:jlacefi...@datastax.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:20 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact Don, What is the underlying question? Are trying to figure out what's going to be fa

Re: Question about how compaction and partition keys interact

2014-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lacefield
Don, What is the underlying question? Are trying to figure out what's going to be faster for reads or are you really concerned about storage? The recommendation typically provided is to suggest that tables are modeled based on query access, to enable the fastest read performance. In your

Question about how compaction and partition keys interact

2014-03-26 Thread Donald Smith
In CQL we need to decide between using ((customer_id,type),date) as the CQL primary key for a reporting table, versus ((customer_id,date),type). We store reports for every day. If we use (customer_id,type) as the partition key (physical key), then we have a WIDE ROW where each date's data is s