I think Cassandra automatically handles it. isn't it?
________________________________ From: Frank Yang <fanfranky...@gmail.com> To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 11:30 PM Subject: Dynamic columns in a column family? Hi everyone, I am wondering whether it is possible to not to define the column metadata when creating a column family, but to specify the column when client updates data, for example: CREATE COLUMN FAMILY products WITH default_validation_class= UTF8Type AND key_validation_class=UTF8Type AND comparator=UTF8Type; set products['1001']['brand']= ‘Sony’; In other words, we don't want to fix the columns definition when creating a column family, as we might have to insert new columns into the column family. Is it possible to achieve it? Thanks, Fan
