On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:17 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > Ordering the rows by row key locally would mean that every row on the node > would have to be scanned to find the ones whose token was in the required > token range.
I don't know much about Cassandra internals, but from a user point of view, a scan for a range of tokens is not a common use-case. Does Cassandra need it so much that it would be impossible to implement the md5_distribution+natural_keys localy? Regards, P.
