I wrote an answer on the blog post (http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3_collections#comment-127093).
-- Sylvain On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Roshni Rajagopal <roshni_rajago...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > CQL3, has collections support as described in this link > http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3_collections > > So looks like when you have a column called email and you could store 1 > value called a...@xyz.com, now you can store a list. > would it be possible to store a name value pair, like column name is Item Id > and value is a collection with 2 elements in each row like {{'name' , > 'apple'}, {'Descr' , 'Granny Smith'}, {'Qty','3'} } > > or would we need to have a column named Item Id and value is {'apple', > 'granny smith', '3'}. and the application needs to figure out that 1st > element is name, second is descr etc > > Also can you store different data types in each row of the list or do all > elements need to be of the same type? > > Im guessing we cant do both- but can anyone confirm. > > > > > Regards, > Roshni
