Re: partial matching of keys

2010-11-29 Thread Tyler Hobbs
Yes, you can basically do this two ways: First, you can use an OrderPreservingPartitioner. This stores your keys in order, so you can grab the range of keys that begin with 'A|B'. Because of the drawbacks of OPP (unbalanced ring, hotspots), you almost certainly don't want to do this. Second, yo

partial matching of keys

2010-11-29 Thread Arijit Mukherjee
Hi All I was wondering if it is possible to match keys partially while searching in Cassandra. I have a requirement where I'm storing a large number of records, the key being something like "A|B|T" where A and B are mobile numbers and T is the time-stamp (the time when A called B). Such format en