Why does the text need to be the key? On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:04 PM Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote:
> I have a need to be able to use the text of a document as the primary key > in a table. These texts are usually less than 1K, but can sometimes be 10’s > of K’s in size. Would it be better to use a digest of the text as the key? > I have a background process that will occasionally need to do a full table > scan and retrieve all of the texts, so using the digest doesn’t eliminate > the need to store the text. Anyway, is it better to keep primary keys > small, or is C* okay with large primary keys? > > Robert > >
