It's not obvious to me how you'd do this in Cassandra but it sounds like a Apache Solr might be a good fit. It lets you index documents with fields and then allows you to query the documents based on field values and/or ranges.
-Tim On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, David MARTIN <dmartin....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > That's a quite simple question : I have a big set of objects (around 3 > millions) each containing several fields (> 20). Fields are just short > strings, other can be larger strings (several hundreds characters, not so > huge so), integers, ... > > I'd like to be able to look for objects based on one or more fields value > or range. > > Is Cassandra as a nosql solution suitable for this kind of need or do I > have to stay stuck to a database (using a denormalized approach) ? > > If Cassandra is suitable, what kind of data structure(s) do I need to adopt > ? > > Thank you. > > David >
