You should also profile what your data looks like on disk before picking a format. It may not be as efficient to use one form or the other due to extra disk overhead.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Jon Ribbens < jon-cassan...@unequivocal.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:21:52PM +0200, Alain RODRIGUEZ wrote: > > I like to point to this article from Sylvain, which is really well > > written. > > http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/thrift-to-cql3 > > Ah, thankyou, it looks like a combination of multi-column "PRIMARY KEY" > and use of collections may well suffice for what I want. I must admit > that I did not find any of this particularly obvious from the CQL > documentation. > > By the way, http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html#createTableStmt > says "A table with COMPACT STORAGE must also define at least one > clustering key", which seems to contradict definition 2 in the > thrift-to-cql3 document you pointed me to. >
