> > EDIT: works after switching to testing against the lastest version of the > cassandra database (doh!), and also updating the syntax per notes below: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16137944/loading-all-rows-from-cassandra-using-multiple-python-clients-in-parallel
Is this still a problem? ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/04/2013, at 12:15 AM, John R. Frank <j...@mit.edu> wrote: > Cassandra Experts, > > I understand that when using Cassandra's recommended RandomPartitioner (or > Murmur3Partitioner), it is not possible to do meaningful range queries on > keys, because the rows are distributed around the cluster using the md5 hash > of the key. These hashes are called "tokens." > > Nonetheless, it would be very useful to split up a large table amongst many > compute workers by assigning each a range of tokens. Using CQL3, it appears > possible to issue queries directly against the tokens, however the following > python does not work: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16137944/loading-all-rows-from-cassandra-using-multiple-python-clients-in-parallel > > I would ideally like to make this work with pycassa, because I prefer its > more pythonic interface. > > Am I just not invoking CQL3 correctly through the cql package? > > Is there a better way to do this? > > > Thanks for any pointers! > > John > > > >
