Rows are actually stored on disk in the order of the hash of their keys when using RandomPartitioner.
Furthermore, the rows are stored in SSTables, which are immutable, and are periodically compacted together. There's no shifting involved. This gives an overview: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Cory Mintz <cory.p.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The DataModel page in the Cassandra Wiki ( > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DataModel) says: > > > > "In Cassandra, each column family is stored in a separate file, and the > file is sorted in row (i.e. key) major order." > > > > Does this mean that new row keys should be ascending? If they are not > ascending does that mean all > > of the data after the new key needs to be shifted down? > > > Thanks. > > Cory > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
