How much data do you need to store and what is the frequency of reads and writes.
-- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Feb 19, 2018, 3:44 AM -0500, Rajesh Kishore <rajesh10si...@gmail.com>, wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a newbie to Cassandra world, got some understanding of the product. > I have a application (which is kind of datastore) for other applications, the > user queries are not fixed i.e the queries can come with any attributes. > In this case, is it recommended to use cassandra ? What benefits we can get ? > > Background - The application currently using berkely db for maintaining > entries, we are trying to evaluate if other backend can fit with the > requirement we have. > > Now, if we want to use cassandra , I broadly see one table which would > contain all the entries. Now, the question is what should be the correct > partitioning majors ? > entity is > Entry { > id varchar, > objectclasses list<TEXT> > sn > cn > ... > ... > } > > and query can be anything like > a) get all entries based on sn=* > b) get all entries based on sn=A and cn=b > c) get all entries based on sn=A OR objeclass contains person > ...... > .... > > Please advise. > > Thanks, > Rajesh