Re: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes items

2013-07-11 Thread Eric Stevens
I think there is not an extremely simple solution to your problem. You will probably need to use multiple tables to get the view you need. One keyed just by file UUID, which tracks some basic metadata about the file including the last modified time. Another as a materialized view of the most rece

Re: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes items

2013-07-11 Thread Jimmy Lin
t; > > > > -Original Message- > From: y2k...@gmail.com on behalf of Jimmy Lin > Sent: Thu 11-Jul-13 13:09 > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: Re: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes > items > > what I mean is, I really just w

RE: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes items

2013-07-11 Thread Lohith Samaga M
-Original Message- From: y2k...@gmail.com on behalf of Jimmy Lin Sent: Thu 11-Jul-13 13:09 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes items what I mean is, I really just want the last modified date instead of series of timestamp and still

Re: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes items

2013-07-11 Thread Jimmy Lin
what I mean is, I really just want the last modified date instead of series of timestamp and still able to sort or order by it. (maybe I should rephrase my question as how to sort or order by last modified column in a row) CREATE TABLE user_file ( user_id uuid, modified_date timest

Re: data model question : finding out the n most recent changes items

2013-07-11 Thread aaron morton
What you described this sounds like the most appropriate: CREATE TABLE user_file ( user_id uuid, modified_date timestamp, file_id timeuuid, PRIMARY KEY(user_id, modified_date) ); If you normally need more information about the file then either store that as addit