Nate,
Really appreciate your quick response.
Yes, I will sign up hector-users as well.
Thanks,
John
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Nate McCall <n...@datastax.com> wrote:
> The Mutator#insert signature is a single insertion operation. To
> "batch" operations, use Mutator#addInsertion. You must then call
> Mutator#execute to send the batched operations.
>
> For Hector specific questions, feel free to sign up for
> hector-us...@googlegroups.com as well.
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jian Fang
> <jian.fang.subscr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am pretty new to Cassandra and am going to use Cassandra 0.8.0. I have
> two
> > questions (sorry if they are very basic ones):
> >
> > 1) I have a column family to hold many super columns, say 30. When I
> first
> > insert the data to the column family, do I need to insert each column one
> at
> > a time or can I insert the whole column family in one transaction (or
> > call?)? The latter one seems to be more efficient to me. Does Cassandra
> > support that?
> >
> > For example, I saw the following code to do insertion (with Hector),
> >
> > Mutator m = HFactory.createMutator(keyspace, stringSerializer);
> > //Mutator<String> m =
> > HFactory.createMutator(keyspace,stringSerializer);
> > m.insert(p.getCassandraKey(), colFamily,
> > HFactory.createStringColumn("type",
> > p.getStringValue()));
> > m.insert(p.getCassandraKey(), colFamily,
> > HFactory.createColumn("data",
> p.getCompressedXML(),
> > StringSerializer.get(),
> > BytesArraySerializer.get()));
> >
> > Will the insertions be two separate calls to Cassandra? Or they are just
> one
> > transaction? If it is the former case, is there any way to make them as
> one
> > call to Cassandra?
> >
> > 2) How to store a list/array of data in Cassandra? For example, I have a
> > data field called categories, which include none or many categories and
> each
> > category includes a category id and a category description. Usually, how
> do
> > people handle this scenario when they use Cassandra?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > John
> >
>
