Thank you Aaaron!
Your blog post helped me understand how a row with a compound key is stored and
this helped me understand how to create the sstable files.
For anyone who needs it this is how it works:
In Cassandra-cli the row looks like this:
RowKey: 5
=> (column=10:created, value=013f84be
> create table test_table ( k1 bigint, k2 bigint, created timestamp, PRIMARY
> KEY (k1, k2) ) with compaction = { 'class' : 'LeveledCompactionStrategy' };
When CQL creates a non COMPACT STORAGE
(http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/cql_cli/cql/CREATE_TABLE#using-compact-storage)
table it uses comp
