Re: Limit on amount of CFs

On 13.2.2011 11:40, Peter Schuller wrote: Reading in the documentation (specially on the tuning section) is clear the the number of Column Families affects the performance, in particular the amount of memory assigned to the heap. My question is: What's the hard limit on the number of CFs? Does a

Re: Indexes and hard disk

On 12.2.2011 16:15, Bill de hÓra wrote: (under the hood, a 0.7 index is a 'private' CF). Thanks for answer, that sounds very clever and neat!

Re: Indexes and hard disk

On 12.2.2011 13:56, Bill de hÓra wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 23:24 -0800, mcasandra wrote: Are indexes supported in Cassandra? If yes then what kind? Also, if it's supported then please point me to the place that give more information about it. Secondary Indexes:

Cassandra concept

Hey i have just downloaded cassandra and playing with it. It's kinda new thing for me (i always used relation dbs). I've read most of the material on wiki (including referenced) and I am puzzled why there is maximum of 3 dimensions (super column family - super column - columns)? who came up with