On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Don Smith <dsm...@likewise.com> wrote: > Does Cassandra shard the columns of a single row across multiple nodes so > that to read the columns of the row it may need access to multiple nodes? > I'd say "no."
Correct. > Will a read from a given node ever return partial results or > is the write to a node of a row atomic? http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#batch_mutate_atomic -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
