> What is the best way to retrieve the latest rows from a CF with OPP. >
Use inverted timestamps (for example, 2^64 - timestamp) with zeros for padding as the row keys. This way you can do a normal forward range scan and get the N latest rows. -- Tyler Hobbs Software Engineer, DataStax <http://datastax.com/> Maintainer of the pycassa <http://github.com/pycassa/pycassa> Cassandra Python client library