Collections might be what you are looking for http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3_collections
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4/01/2013, at 11:35 AM, Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo <renatoj.marroq...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Aaron! > > What I am trying to map into Cassandra is an avro model like the one > that follows: > > > { > "type": "record", > "name": "WebPage", > "namespace": "org.bytegolem.webpage.generated", > "fields" : [ > {"name": "url", "type": "string"}, > {"name": "content", "type": ["null","bytes"]}] > } > > But I am not sure on how to map the {"name": "content", "type": > ["null","bytes"]} part. Should I just use it just as a column > accepting null values? > This is what I've got: > > keyspace ="WebPage" > - Family "p" >> Field name="url" qualifier="c:u" >> Field name="content" qualifier="p:cnt:c" > > Would that sound right to you? Any advice is appreciated! > Thanks! > > > Renato M. > > > 2013/1/3 aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>: >> I am not sure which >> Avro data types Cassandra support >> >> None. >> Any mention to avro internally is from a dark time in the past. >> >> Cassandra presents it's own data model, which can be used to store pretty >> much anything. So you could serialise the avro types and store them as byte >> streams if you wanted to. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Freelance Cassandra Developer >> New Zealand >> >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >> On 4/01/2013, at 7:22 AM, Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo >> <renatoj.marroq...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have started playing around with Cassandra and I am not sure which >> Avro data types Cassandra supports. Is there any type of documentation >> or could anyone please help me on this doubt of mine? >> Thanks! >> >> >> Renato M. >> >>
