On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Mike Malone <m...@simplegeo.com> wrote: > It seems to me that super columns are a historical artifact from Cassandra's > early life as Facebook's inbox storage system. They needed posting lists of > messages, sharded by user. So that's what they built. In my dealings with > the Cassandra code, super columns end up making a mess all over the place > when algorithms need to be special cased and branch based on the > column/supercolumn distinction. > I won't even mention what it does to the thrift interface.
+1 -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
