Yep. I forgot about the binary search part. Thank you!
regards, hanzhu On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Zhu Han <schumi....@gmail.com> wrote: > > When the row is stored on disk as SSTable, the complexity of getting a > row > > is constant, as it always know where to get the row by in-memory indices. > > Technically, it's O(log N) because of the binary search on the in-memory > index. > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://riptano.com >