This is something that I'm not sure that I understand. Can somebody confirm/deny that I understand it? Thanks.
If you use random partitioning, you can loop through all keys with a range query, but they will not be sorted. True or False? On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:45 AM, AJ Chen <ajc...@web2express.org> wrote: > thanks, that works. -aj > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Stu Hood <stu.h...@rackspace.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > > > -- > AJ Chen, PhD > Chair, Semantic Web SIG, sdforum.org > http://web2express.org > twitter @web2express > Palo Alto, CA, USA >
