In general, write is faster than read in Cassandra. maki
On 2011/12/13, at 13:54, Waqar Azeem <waqar.az...@itcompletes.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 'threads' are nested in a 'forum', therefore, I decided to create a > column-family 'thread' with a column named 'parent'. > > > Is this idea matched with Cassandra philosophy? Because I feel that > extracting the data recursively is computational hungry for a site like > reddit.com. > > > > Therefore one idea is to put the complete data in a JSON and store it in a > single column. I hope the retrieval would be fast but the only glitch is; > writing/inserting the data back to the Cassandra. Would it be time consuming? > > > -- > Thanks & Best Regards, > Waqar Azeem > > P.S. My email to dev@cass is bounce back with a message 'This email inbox is > not ...'. Please ignore if i have made any mistake.