For querying purposes it would be better to use readable strings because you can really get information out of that.
TimeUUID is just a unique value based on time; but not only the time. 2012/2/28 Tamar Fraenkel <[email protected]> > Hi! > I have a column family where I use rows as "time buckets". > What I do is take epoc time in seconds, and round it to 1 hour (taking the > result of time_since_epoc_second divided by 3600). > My key validation type is LongType. > I wonder whether it is better to use TimeUUID or even readable string > representation for time? > Thanks, > > -- > *Tamar Fraenkel * > Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media > > [image: Inline image 1] > > [email protected] > Tel: +972 2 6409736 > Mob: +972 54 8356490 > Fax: +972 2 5612956 > > > >
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