Storing lots of data as Columns in a Column Family (ref Twissandra)

Hello folks, Twissandra (Twitter clone example for Cassandra) has a public page where every public update/tweet is stored in a column family under the key !public! like so: Userline = { '!public!': { # timestamp of tweet: tweet id 1267414247561777: '75

Re: Auto Increament

You replace it with an UUID. In a true scalable distributed system, you should not have an auto_increment. If you are writing to 10 nodes simultaneously, it becomes near impossible to keep a single incrementing value being used by the entire system without causing a lot of write contention. This i