> > 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. >
Any reason rowkeys are not stored by their raws keys on a given node for RP ? I understand the partitioning across nodes should be randomized, but on a given node why they are sorted by hash of their keys and not just by the raw keys ? What are we gaining by 'decorating' the keys with a random number ? ( ref section 3 in http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureSSTable ) -Thanks, Prasenjit
