On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 21:57, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My biggest question so far is about order-preserving partitioner. I'd >> like to have such partitioner for a specific column family, having >> random partitioner for others. Is it possible wrt to the current >> architecture? > > No.
Ok. Upon reading more details on a wiki I see it doesn't fit now. Now I'm thinking about scenarios of distributing the keys using OPP without knowing the number of nodes a priori. Does this explanation: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Range_changes applies to any partitioner?