Re: Help on Cassandra Limitaions

2013-09-06 Thread Shahab Yunus
Also, Sylvain, you have couple of great posts about relationships between CQL3/Thrift entities and naming issues: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3-for-cassandra-experts http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3 I always refer to them when I get confuse :) Regards, Shahab On Fri, Sep

Re: Help on Cassandra Limitaions

2013-09-06 Thread Hannu Kröger
Hi, Well, that was a word to word quotation. :) Anyways, I think what you just said is a better explanation than those two previous ones. I hope it ends up on the wiki page because what it says there now is causing confusion, no matter how correct it technically is :) Cheers, Hannu 2013/9/6 Sy

Re: Help on Cassandra Limitaions

2013-09-05 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
Well, I don't know if that's what Patrick replied but that's not correct. The wording *is* correct, though it does uses CQL3 terms. For CQL3, the term "partition" is used to describe all the (CQL) rows that share the same partition key (If you don't know what the latter is: http://cassandra.apache.

Re: Help on Cassandra Limitaions

2013-09-05 Thread Hannu Kröger
I asked the same thing earlier and this is what patrick mcfadin replied: "It's not worded well. Essentially it's saying there is a 2B limit on a row. It should be worded a 'CQL row'" I hope helps. Cheers, Hannu On 6.9.2013, at 8.20, J Ramesh Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > http://wiki.apache.org/ca

Help on Cassandra Limitaions

2013-09-05 Thread J Ramesh Kumar
Hi, http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations In the above link, I found the below limitation, "The maximum number of cells (rows x columns) in a single partition is 2 billion.". Here what does "partition" mean ? Is it node (or) column family (or) anything else ? Thanks, Ramesh