Rowkey is stored only once in any sstable file. That is, in the spesial case where you get sstable file per column/value, you are correct, but normally, I guess most of us are storing more per key.
Regards, Terje On 11 Aug 2012, at 10:34, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote: > Curious, but does cassandra store the rowkey along with every > column/value pair on disk (pre-compaction) like Hbase does? If so > (which makes the most sense), I assume that's something that is > optimized during compaction? > > > -- > Aaron Turner > http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic > http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & > Windows > Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. > -- Benjamin Franklin > "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"
