> > CREATE TABLE seen_ships ( > day text, > time_seen timestamp, > shipname text, > PRIMARY KEY (day, time_seen) > );
In CQL3, we could select all the columns with the same 'day' and same 'time_seen'. Is it possible with cassandra-cli? On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Tristan Seligmann <mithra...@mithrandi.net>wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:25 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> > wrote: > > In this example: > > > > CREATE TABLE seen_ships ( > > day text, > > time_seen timestamp, > > shipname text, > > PRIMARY KEY (day, time_seen) > > ); > > http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cql-3-0 > > > > * day is the internal row key > > * there is only ONE internal column / cell, the shipname > > * the internal column / cell "shipname" is a composite of the *value* of > > time_seen. e.g. <time_seen:shipnae> > > Alternatively, if you want a composite partition key eg. > <day:time_seen>, this functionality is implemented in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4179 and I believe is > available in Cassandra 1.2 as well[1]. > > [1] I recently asked about this on SO: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13938288/can-a-cassandra-cql3-column-family-have-a-composite-partition-key > -- > mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar >
