Hi Dean, I don't have have an answer to your question, but just in case you haven't seen this screencast by Ed Anuff on Cassandra Indexes, it helped me a lot. http://blip.tv/datastax/indexing-in-cassandra-5495633
Hani On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Dean Hiller <d...@alvazan.com> wrote: > I heard cassandra may be going the direction of removing super column and > users are starting to just use prefixes in front of the column. > > The reason I ask is I was going the way of only using supercolumns and then > many tables were fixed with just one supercolumn per row as the structure > for that table was simple....this kept the api we have on top of Hector > extremely simple not having to deal with columns vs. supercolumns. What are > people's thoughts on this? > > Dealing in columnfamilies where some have supercolumns and some don't I > think personally is a painful way to go.....going with just one way and > sticking with it sure makes the apis easier and it's much easier to apply > AOP type stuff to that ONE insert method rather than having two insert > methods. So what is the direction of casssandra project and the > recommendation? > > thanks, > Dean >
