That should be "big-endian".
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@riptano.com> wrote:
> How are you packing the longs into strings? The large negative numbers
> point to that being done incorrectly.
>
> Bitshifting and putting each byte of the long into a char[8] then
> stringifying the char[] is the best way to go. Cassandra expects
> big-ending longs, as well.
>
> - Tyler
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Guillermo Winkler <
> gwink...@inconcertcc.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm using thrift in C++ and inserting the results in a vector of pairs, so
>> client-side-mangling does not seem to be the problem.
>>
>> Also I'm using a "test" column where I insert the same value I'm using as
>> super column name (in this case the same date converted to string) and when
>> queried using cassandra cli is unsorted too:
>>
>> cassandra> get Events.EventsByUserDate ['guille']
>> => (super_column=9088542550893002752,
>>
>> (column=4342323443303834363833383437454339364433324530324538413039373736,
>> value=2010-12-06 17:43:36.000, timestamp=1291657416526732))
>> => (super_column=5990347482238812160,
>>
>> (column=41414e4c6b54696d6532423656566e6869667a336f654b6147393d2d395a4e797441397a744f39686d3147392b406d61696c2e676d61696c2e636f6d,
>> value=2010-12-06 17:46:08.000, timestamp=1291657568569039))
>> => (super_column=-3089190841516818432,
>>
>> (column=3634343644353236463830303437363542454245354630343845393533373337,
>> value=2010-12-06 17:44:47.000, timestamp=1291657487450738))
>> => (super_column=-4026221038986592256,
>>
>> (column=62303232396330372d636430612d343662332d623834382d393632366136323061376532,
>> value=2010-12-06 17:39:50.000, timestamp=1291657190117981))
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@riptano.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What client are you using? Is it storing the results in a hash map or
>>> some other type of
>>> non-order preserving dictionary?
>>>
>>> - Tyler
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Guillermo Winkler <
>>> gwink...@inconcertcc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I've the following schema defined:
>>>>
>>>> EventsByUserDate : {
>>>> UserId : {
>>>> epoch: { // SC
>>>> IID,
>>>> IID,
>>>> IID,
>>>> IID
>>>> },
>>>> // and the other events in time
>>>> epoch: {
>>>> IID,
>>>> IID,
>>>> IID
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> <ColumnFamily ColumnType="Super" CompareWith="LongType"
>>>> CompareSubcolumnsWith="BytesType" Name="EventsByUserDate "/>
>>>>
>>>> Where I'm expecting to store all the event ids for a user ordered by
>>>> date (it's seconds since epoch as long long), I'm using
>>>> OrdingPreservingPartitioner.
>>>>
>>>> But a call to:
>>>>
>>>> GetSuperRangeSlices("EventsByUserDate ", --column family
>>>> "", --supercolumn
>>>> userId, --startkey
>>>> userId, --endkey
>>>> {
>>>> column_names = {},
>>>> slice_range = {
>>>> start = "",
>>>> finish = "",
>>>> reversed = true,
>>>> count = 20} },
>>>> 1 --total keys
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> Is not sorting correctly by supercolumn (the supercolumn names come out
>>>> unsorted), this is a sample output for the pervious query using thrift
>>>> directly:
>>>>
>>>> SC 1291648883
>>>> SC 1291588465
>>>> SC 1291588453
>>>> SC 1291586385
>>>> SC 1291587408
>>>> SC 1291588174
>>>> SC 1291585331
>>>> SC 1291587116
>>>> SC 1291651116
>>>> SC 1291586332
>>>> SC 1291588548
>>>> SC 1291588036
>>>> SC 1291648703
>>>> SC 1291583651
>>>> SC 1291583650
>>>> SC 1291583649
>>>> SC 1291583648
>>>> SC 1291583647
>>>> SC 1291583646
>>>> SC 1291587485
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anything I'm missing regarding sorting schemes?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Guille
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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