Re: Storage Layout Questions

2010-04-28 Thread Jonathan Shook
Ah, now I understand. Supercolumns it is. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I don't think you are missing anything. You'll have to pick your poison. > > FWIW, if each BAR has relatively few fields then supercolumns aren't > bad. It's when a BAR has dynamically growing nu

Re: Storage Layout Questions

2010-04-28 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I don't think you are missing anything. You'll have to pick your poison. FWIW, if each BAR has relatively few fields then supercolumns aren't bad. It's when a BAR has dynamically growing numbers of fields (subcolumns) that you get in trouble with that model. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Jon

Storage Layout Questions

2010-04-27 Thread Jonathan Shook
I'm trying to model a one-to-many set of data in which both sides of the relation may grow arbitrarily large. There are arbitrarily many FOOs. For each FOO, there are arbitrarily many BARs. Both types are modeled as an object, containing multiple fields (columns) in the application. Given a key-add