Hi Aaron,
Thanks for answering! Yeah that is what I did but then when looking
into the actual column family created I saw this timestamp column
which Cassandra had created. Are we allowed to use this? What is this
specifically for?
Thanks again for the help!
Renato M.
2013/1/15 Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com>:
> I don't think so. Usually you'd use either a Time-UUID or something
> like epoch time as the column name to get a range of columns by time
> range.
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo
> <renatoj.marroq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am having some problems while retrieving some events from a column
>> family I have created.
>> My column family has been created as follows:
>>
>> create column family click_event
>> WITH comparator = UTF8Type and
>> column_metadata = [ {column_name: event, validation_class: UTF8Type} ];
>>
>> My table is populated as follows:
>>
>> list click_events;
>> -------------------
>> => (column=start:2013-01-13 18:14:59.244, value=, timestamp=1358118943979000)
>> => (column=stop:2013-01-13 18:15:56.793,
>> value=323031332d30312d31332031383a31353a35382e333437,
>> timestamp=1358118960946000)
>>
>> I have two questions here:
>> 1) What is the timestamp column used for?
>> 2) How can I retrieve this timestamp column using Hector client?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> Renato M.
>
>
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