Your IPartitioner implementation decides how the row keys are sorted: see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration#Partitioner . You need to be using one of the OrderPreservingPartitioners if you'd like a reasonable order for the keys.
-----Original Message----- From: "AJ Chen" <ajc...@web2express.org> Sent: Friday, May 7, 2010 3:10pm To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: key is sorted? I have a super column family for "topic", key being the name of the topic. <ColumnFamily Name="Topic" CompareWith="UTF8Type" ColumnType="Super" CompareSubcolumnsWith="BytesType" /> When I retrieve the rows, the rows are not sorted by the key. Is the row key sorted in cassandra by default? -aj -- AJ Chen, PhD Chair, Semantic Web SIG, sdforum.org http://web2express.org twitter @web2express Palo Alto, CA, USA
