Supercolumn has two columns and each column has only one byte. It is a bit faster but not significant.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't read the entire row, but it does read a section of the row from > disk... > > How big is each supercolumn? If you re-read the data does the query time > get faster? > > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Philippe <watche...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i believe it's because it needs to read the whole row to get to your super >> column. >> >> you might have to reconsider your model. >> Le 26 juil. 2011 17:39, "Priyanka" <priya...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> > >> > Hello All, >> > >> > I am doing some read tests on Cassandra on a single node.But they >> > are turning up to be very slow. >> > Here is the data model in detail. >> > I am using a super column family.Cassandra has total 970 rows and each >> row >> > has 620901 super columns and each super column has 2 columns.Total data >> in >> > the database would be around 45GB. >> > I am trying to retrieve the data of a particular super column[Trying to >> pull >> > the row key associated with the super column and the column values with >> in >> > the super column. >> > It is taking 2.5 secs with java code and 4.7 secs with the python code. >> > >> > Here is the python code. >> > result = col_fam.get_range(start="", >> > finish="",columns=None,column_start="",column_finish >> > >> ="",column_reversed=False,column_count=2,row_count=None,include_timestamp=False, >> > super_column='200003', read_consistency_level=None,buffer_size=None) >> > >> > This is very slow compared to MySQL. >> > Am not sure whats going wrong here.Could some one let me know if there >> is >> > any problem with my model. >> > >> > >> > Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Priyanka >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Slow-Reads-tp6622680p6622680.html >> > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive >> at Nabble.com. >> > > > > -- > http://twitter.com/tjake >