Thanks a bunch. Mark On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Mark Kerzner <markkerz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > when I am issuing some query, that returns a HashMap, does the whole > HashMap > > have to be in memory? > > Yes. > > > If so, it can easily use up all memory? Is there some > > cursor or paging provisions? > > Yes, that is what all the start_key parameters are for. > > But we strongly recommend using a high-level client like Hector > instead of raw Thrift. Also see the CQL drivers: > > http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-cassandra-0-8-part-1-cql-the-cassandra-query-language > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com >
