We have done exactly as you describe (nested dicts etc) - works fine as long as you are happy to read the whole lump of data, i.e. don't need to read at a finer granularity. This approach can also save a lot of storage space as you don't have the overhead of many small columns.
Some folks also write JSON, which would be a bit more language-independent of course. On 22 September 2011 19:28, Ian Danforth <idanfo...@numenta.com> wrote: > All, > > I find myself considering storing serialized python dicts in Cassandra. > I'd like to store fairly complex, nested dicts, and it's just easier to do > this rather than work out a lot of super columns / columns etc. > > Do others find themselves storing serialized data structures in Cassandra > or is this generally a sign of doing something wrong? > > Thanks in advance! > > Ian >
