I asked the same thing earlier and this is what patrick mcfadin replied: "It's not worded well. Essentially it's saying there is a 2B limit on a row. It should be worded a 'CQL row'"
I hope helps. Cheers, Hannu On 6.9.2013, at 8.20, J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations > > In the above link, I found the below limitation, > > "The maximum number of cells (rows x columns) in a single partition is 2 > billion.". > > Here what does "partition" mean ? Is it node (or) column family (or) anything > else ? > > Thanks, > Ramesh
