On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:34 AM, tsuraan <tsur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Suppose I have a SuperColumn CF where one of the SuperColumns in each > row is being treated as a list (e.g. keys only, values are just > empty). In this list, values will only ever be added; deletion never > occurs. If I have two processes simultaneously add values to this > list (on different nodes, whatever), is that guaranteed to be safe > from race conditions?
As long as you use column names that do not collide, such as uuids. > Also, in a scheme like this, is there a limit on the number of entries > I can have in my "list"? I know that compaction normally needs to > read an entire row into RAM in order to compact it. Does this also > apply to SuperColumn columns? #3 here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations
