Here's an example of that not working: cqlsh:Test> desc table count4;
CREATE TABLE count4 ( ts timeuuid, counter text, key1 text, value int, PRIMARY KEY (ts, counter) ) WITH bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND comment='' AND dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND replicate_on_write='true' AND populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND compression={'sstable_compression': 'SnappyCompressor'}; cqlsh:Test> select counter,dateof(ts),key1,value from count4; counter | dateof(ts) | key1 | value ---------+--------------------------+------+------- test | 2013-06-18 22:36:16-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:18-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:18-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:18-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:19-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:19-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:20-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:20-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:21-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:21-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:22-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:22-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:23-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:23-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:25-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:27-0400 | 1 | 1 test | 2013-06-18 22:36:28-0400 | 1 | 1 cqlsh:Statistics> select counter,dateof(ts),key1,value from count4 where ts > minTimeuuid('2013-06-17 22:36:16') and ts < minTimeuuid('2013-06-19 22:36:20'); Bad Request: 2 Start key must sort before (or equal to) finish key in your partitioner! Any ideas? Seems like a bug to me, right? Brent From: <Ryan>, Brent Ryan <br...@cvent.com<mailto:br...@cvent.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:47 PM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: timeuuid and cql3 query Tyler, You're recommending this schema instead, correct? CREATE TABLE count3 ( counter text, ts timeuuid, key1 text, value int, PRIMARY KEY (ts, counter) ) I believe I tried this as well and ran into similar problems but I'll try it again. I'm using the "ByteOrderedPartitioner" if that helps with the latest version of DSE community edition which I believe is Cassandra 1.2.3. Thanks, Brent From: Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com<mailto:ty...@datastax.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:00 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: timeuuid and cql3 query On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Ryan, Brent <br...@cvent.com<mailto:br...@cvent.com>> wrote: CREATE TABLE count3 ( counter text, ts timeuuid, key1 text, value int, PRIMARY KEY ((counter, ts)) ) Instead of doing a composite partition key, remove a set of parens and let ts be your clustering key. That will cause cql rows to be stored in sorted order by the ts column (for a given value of "counter") and allow you to do the kind of query you're looking for. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax<http://datastax.com/>