I had the same question you did, I think. Below is as far as I got with Hector…
I have a column family of super-columns with long names. The columns in each super-column also have long names. I'm using Hector, and what I want to do is get the last column in each super-column, for a range of super-columns. I was able to get the last column in a column family like this… Cluster cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("Cortex", config); Keyspace keyspace = HFactory.createKeyspace("Products", cluster); RangeSlicesQuery<String, String, String> rangeSlicesQuery = HFactory.createRangeSlicesQuery(keyspace, StringSerializer.get(), StringSerializer.get(), StringSerializer.get()); rangeSlicesQuery.setColumnFamily("Attributes"); rangeSlicesQuery.setKeys("id0", "id0"); rangeSlicesQuery.setRange("", "", true, 1); QueryResult<OrderedRows<String, String, String>> rsult = rangeSlicesQuery.execute(); …but no luck with the additional dimension. Caleb Rackliffe | Software Developer M 949.981.0159 | ca...@steelhouse.com From: Guy Incognito <dnd1...@gmail.com<mailto:dnd1...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:34:08 -0400 To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: super sub slice query? is there such a thing? a query that runs against a SC family and returns a subset of subcolumns from a set of super-columns? is there a way to have eg a slice query (or super slice query) only return the column names, rather than the value as well?