Here is a recent presentation from simplegeo.com that may provide some inspiration http://strangeloop2010.com/system/talks/presentations/000/014/495/Malone-DimensionalDataDHT.pdf
Can you provide some more details on the data you want to store and queries you want to run ? Aaron On 6/02/2011, at 7:04 AM, Sean Ochoa <sean.m.oc...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a good question, Bill. > > The data that I'm trying to store begins as a simple point. But, moving fo= > rward, it will become more like complex geometries. I assume that I can si= > mply create a JSON-like object and insert it. Which, for now, that works. = > I'm just wondering if theres a typical / publicly accepted standard of sto= > ring somewhat complex spatial data in Cassandra. > > Additionally, I would like to figure out how one goes about slicing on large > spatial data sets given situations where, for instance, I would like to get > all the points in a column-family where the point is within a shape. I guess > it boils down to using a spatial comparator of some sort, but I haven't seen > one, yet. > > - Sean > > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:51 AM, William R Speirs <bill.spe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > I know nothing about postgis and little about spacial data, but if you're > simply talking about data that relates to some latitude & longitude pair, you > could have your row key simply be the concatenation of the two: lat:long. > > Can you provide more details about the type of data you're looking to store? > > Thanks... > > Bill- > > > On 02/05/2011 12:22 PM, Sean Ochoa wrote: > Can someone tell me how to represent spatial data (coming from postgis) in > Cassandra? > > - Sean > > > > -- > Sean | M (206) 962-7954 | GV (760) 624-8718
