I'd suggest you use RandomPartitioner, an index, and multiget. You'll be able to do range queries and won't have the load imbalance and performance problems of OPP and native range queries.
b On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Paul Prescod <p...@prescod.net> wrote: > I have one append-oriented workload and I would like to know if > Cassandra is appropriate for it. > > Given: > > * 100 nodes > > * an OrderPreservingPartitioner > > * a replication factor of "3" > > * a write-pattern of "always append" > > * a strong requirement for range queries > > My understanding is that there will exist 3 nodes will end up being > responsible for all writes and potentially a disproportionate amount > of reads (in the common case that users care more about recent data > than older data). > > Is there some manual way I can fiddle with InitialTokens and > ReplicationFactors to share the load more fairly? > > Paul Prescod >
