Re: Secondary Index information

2011-01-28 Thread B. Todd Burruss
batch_mutate doesn't guarantee consistency. each mutation in the batch is guaranteed to be consistent based on your CL, but if it returns an error it means that it couldn't complete all mutations ... but the converse isn't true. it may have successfully completed some mutations. if you get a

Re: Secondary Index information

2011-01-28 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Hi Victor, In my research and playing around with nosql, specifically cassandra, I see the true benefit in defining search requirements and then creating CF's and the hierarchy based on this. So for me, I see quite a bit of simplicity in defining alternate CF's to allow me to efficiently find a s

Re: Secondary Index information

2011-01-28 Thread Victor Kabdebon
Dear Sasha, I am currently thinking about using secondary index in the future. I have seen two pros : _Simplicity, it is "more simple" to query based on a second index than going for a first column then a second. _ "Consistency" : depending on where you store your inverted index, it may be unavail

Re: Secondary Index information

2011-01-28 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Thank you. So, after reading, I'm still unsure if this feature will afford me a larger benefit when compared to an inverted index solution. Has anyone done a pros / cons ? -sd On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jake Luciani wrote: > http://www.datastax.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-

Re: Secondary Index information

2011-01-28 Thread Jake Luciani
http://www.datastax.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary-indexes On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > Hi there, > > Where can I find information regarding secondary indexes? Spent the > past 2 days looking for some good details. > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Seconda

Secondary Index information

2011-01-28 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Hi there, Where can I find information regarding secondary indexes? Spent the past 2 days looking for some good details. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/SecondaryIndexes doesn't yet exist, althought it's referenced from http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration Trying to understand