Anyone? On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Kamal Bahadur <mailtoka...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All, > > It is great to know that Cassandra column family can accommodate 2 billion > columns per row! I was reading about how Cassandra stores the secondary > index info internally. I now understand that the index related data are > stored in hidden CF and each node is responsible to store the keys of data > that reside on that node only. > > I have been using secondary index for a low cardinality column called > "product". There can only be 3 possible values for this column. I have a > four node cluster and process about 5000 records per second with a RF 2. > > My question here is, what happens after the number of columns in hidden > index CF exceeds 2 billion? How does Cassandra handle this situation? I > guess, one way to handle this is to add more nodes to the cluster. I am > interested in knowing if any other solution exist. > > Thanks, > Kamal >
