Hi, Thanks for the helpful reply, Aaron!
I also found this Datastax blog post very helpful in this case: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3 marko Aaron Morton wrote: >> Is this data model defined by Thrift? How closely does it reflect the >> Cassandra internal data model? > Yes. > Astynax is a thrift based API, and the thrift model closely matches the > internal model. > CQL 3 provides some abstractions on top of the internal model. > >> Is there any documentation or other online pointers describing these >> different data models? >See data modelling http://www.datastax.com/docs
