Re: how to know there are some columns in a row

2011-06-08 Thread Patrick de Torcy
| I am pretty sure this would cut down on network traffic, but not on Disk IO or CPU use. Well, that's the same for the get_count method ! I think that would be ok,since the network traffic is the real problem (big values...). To store the column names in a separate column could be a solution of

Re: how to know there are some columns in a row

2011-06-08 Thread Patrick de Torcy
There is no reason for ambiguities... We could add in the api another method call (similar to get_count) : get_columnNames - list get_columnNames(key, column_parent, predicate, consistency_level) Get the columns names present in column_parent within the predicate. The method is not O(

Re: how to know there are some columns in a row

2011-06-07 Thread Patrick de Torcy
- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 6 Jun 2011, at 10:18, Patrick de Torcy wrote: > > It would be definetely useful to be able to have columns (or super columns) > names WITHOUT their values. If

Re: how to know there are some columns in a row

2011-06-05 Thread Patrick de Torcy
It would be definetely useful to be able to have columns (or super columns) names WITHOUT their values. If these ones are pretty big or if there are a lot of columns, that would generate traffic not necessarily needed (if in the end you are just interrested by some column). Moreover it doesn't seem

Re: How does Bootstrapping work in 0.7 ??

2011-01-23 Thread Patrick de Torcy
Thanks, Eric and Peter, for all the replies ! It helped me a lot... I've read again the Getting Started page... In fact I have particularly read the chapter : "setting up a multi node cluster" (as it was what I tried to do). It's written : "T

How does Bootstrapping work in 0.7 ??

2011-01-20 Thread Patrick de Torcy
Hi, I've read many, many docs (yes , http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operationstoo...) but I still can't see how bootstrapping work... I started with one node and put my data in it (16 GB). It's ok. I added a second node with AutoBootstrap=true (as explained in the doc, I didn't add this node i

bootstrapping doesn't work for me

2011-01-19 Thread Patrick de Torcy
I use cassandra 0.7, and I have a cluster of two nodes. I have a first node 192.168.1.109 with in its yaml : initial_token: auto_bootstrap: false hinted_handoff_enabled: true partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner seeds: - 192.168.1.109 listen_address: 192.168.1.109 rpc_addre