Re: read on multiple SS tables

2011-10-06 Thread Brandon Williams
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM, aaron morton wrote: > -If you perform a query for a specific row key and a column name, does > it read the most recent SSTable first and if it finds a hit, does it > stop there or does it need to read through all the SStables (to find > most recent one) regardless o

Re: read on multiple SS tables

2011-10-06 Thread aaron morton
> -If you perform a query for a specific row key and a column name, does > it read the most recent SSTable first and if it finds a hit, does it > stop there or does it need to read through all the SStables (to find > most recent one) regardless of whether if found a hit on the most > recent SSTable

read on multiple SS tables

2011-10-06 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
Lets assume I perform frequent insert & update on a column family.. Over a period of time multiple sstables will have this row/column data. I have 2 questions about how reads work in cassandra w.r.t. multiple SS tables. -If you perform a query for a specific row key and a column name, does it read