Re: Column index vs Row index vs Denormalizing

2013-04-11 Thread Coen Stevens
Thanks for the feedback! We will be going forward by implementing and deploying the proposed model, and test it out. Cheers, Coen On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:21 PM, aaron morton wrote: > Retrieving the latest 1000 tweets (of a given day) is trivial by > requesting the streamTweets columnFamily.

Re: Column index vs Row index vs Denormalizing

2013-04-11 Thread aaron morton
> Retrieving the latest 1000 tweets (of a given day) is trivial by requesting > the streamTweets columnFamily. If you normally want to get the most recent items use a reverse comparator on the column name see http://thelastpickle.com/2011/10/03/Reverse-Comparators/ > Getting the latest tweets

Column index vs Row index vs Denormalizing

2013-04-09 Thread Coen Stevens
Hi all, We are working on a data model for storing tweets for multiple streams (where a stream is defined by a number of keyword filters on the full twitter firehose), and retrieving the tweets by timestamp and hashtag. My question is whether the following data model would a good way for doing tha