On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:14 AM, dir dir <sikerasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gary, > >>The main reason is that the compaction operation (removing deleted >>values) currently requires that an entire row be read into memory. > > Thank you for your explanation. But I still do not understand what do you > mean.
Do you have a pressing need to use Cassandra right now, before version 1.0 is even available? That limitation will go away before 1.0, so you could simply wait and not worry about it. Documentation will also be much more complete in the future. Paul Prescod