That is my understanding. Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 18/08/2011, at 12:36 AM, Philippe wrote: >> What if the column is a counter ? Does it overwrite or increment ? Ie if the >> SST I am loading has the exact same setup but value 2, will my value change >> to 3 ? > Counter columns only know how to increment (assuming no deletes), so you will > get 3. See > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/AbstractSSTableSimpleWriter.java#L153 > and > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CounterColumn.java#L138 > Great, so I assume that I can "add" the same counter column multiple times > for the same key/SC in different nextRow() calls and the counter will still > get incremented ? > My use-case is that my bulk loading has data that's aggregated at a finer > granularity than the data in cassandra. > > Thanks >
