Buddasystem is right. A count returns columns to the client which count it. My advice : do not count big columns / supercolumns. People in the dev team are trying to develop distributed counters but I don't know the state of this research.
Best regards, Victor Kabdebon http://www.voxnucleus.fr 2011/1/28 buddhasystem <potek...@bnl.gov> > > As far as I know, there are no aggregate operations built into Cassandra, > which means you'll have to retrieve all of the data to count it in the > client. I had a thread on this topic 2 weeks ago. It's pretty bad. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Cassandra-and-count-tp5969159p5970315.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
