I don't think this is currently possible. There is some work underway to add it in the future, however:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-721 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1016 On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Beier Cai <beier...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to increment/decrement a column value directly without > reading it first and then do the operation on client side? In mysql you can > do "UPDATE mytable SET counter=counter+1", any equivalent in Cassandra? > > Beier, Cai > beier...@gmail.com >