On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:02:30 -0700 Joe Stump <j...@joestump.net> wrote:
JS> On Dec 28, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> Is this worth a JIRA feature request? Or is it something Cassandra will >> never support fully? From the user's perspective it's very useful. JS> I don't know why it'd be very useful to be honest. Lots of us have JS> CF's with billions of keys. Ours, for instance, tends to shit its JS> pants when returning ~300k keys. I can see that's a problem. In my case, row keys represent switches in production so I don't expect more than a few hundred. An application can't find out how many switches are known without enumerating the keys; how would you suggest I attack the problem? JS> If you're asking for a CF count value, I can see that being useful JS> (e.g. There are 4m keys in CF 'foo'). That's more useful for your setup, absolutely. In my case the number is too small to matter. Ted
