On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Dave Brosius <dbros...@baybroadband.net> wrote: > It depends on what partitioner you use. You should be using the > RandomPartitioner, and if so, the rows are sorted by the hash of the row > key. there are partitioners that sort based on the raw key value but these > partitioners shouldn't be used as they have problems due to uneven > partitioning of data.
The formal way this works in the code is that SSTables are ordered by "decorated" row key, where "decoration" is only a transformation when you are not using OrderedPartitioner. FWIW, in case you see that "DecoratedKey" syntax while reading code.. =Rob -- =Robert Coli AIM>ALK - rc...@palominodb.com YAHOO - rcoli.palominob SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb
