Re: (another) Newbie question

2010-04-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
The important distinction here is that you can slice on columns in a row, but you can't slice on column family (or keyspace) names, because the data isn't stored contiguously. The row, within the columnfamily, is the unit of data storage and api focus. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Benjamin B

Re: (another) Newbie question

2010-04-16 Thread Benjamin Black
The multi-level dictionary explanation holds. Regex on keys like that is something specific language implementations support, not something inherent in a dictionary data structure. The table model is particularly fraught because it drags in a lot of relational assumptions, none of which hold. An

Re: (another) Newbie question

2010-04-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Colin Yates wrote: > I was hoping I could do a get_range_slices specifying 'project*' for the > columnFamily and a keyRange start: 20100107, end:20100109 but I > get an error 'InvalidRequestException(why:unconfigured columnfamily > project*)'. I think you've been

(another) Newbie question

2010-04-12 Thread Colin Yates
Hi, Assume I have: SCF: Projects : { CF:"project1": { 20100101: {cost:10, other columns}, 20100102: {cost:10, other columns}, . 20100120: {cost 10, other columns} }, CF:"project2": { 20100105: {cost:12, other columns} .