Thanks Edward. What's the link to your blog?
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Yiming Sun <yiming....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for information/tutorials on the use of composite columns, >> including how to use it, what kind of indexing it can offer, and its >> advantage over super columns. I googled but came up with very little >> information. There is a blog article from high performance cassandra on the >> compositeType comparator, but the use case is a composite column name rather >> than a column value. Does anyone know of some good resources on this and is >> willing to share with me? Thanks. >> >> -- Y. >> > > I am going to do some more composite recipes in my blog, I noticed from my > search refers that it is a very hot topic. > > www.anuff.com/2011/02/indexing-in-cassandra.html > www.anuff.com/2010/07/secondary-indexes-in-cassandra.html > www.datastax.com/2011/06/ed-anuff-to-speak-at-cassandra-sf-2011 > > Composite columns do not do indexing in themselves but the way they allow > multiple components to live in one column but still sort properly is how > they relate to indexing. > > Edward >