If you are turning a row containing supercolumns each with lots of subcolumns, into "one row per supercolumn" with lots of regular columns each, then yes, that would be more efficient (unless your really do read all the subcolumns w/ each query anyway, in which case it doesn't matter).
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Erik Holstad <erikhols...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry about that! > Continuing: > > And in that case when using rows as indexes instead of columns we only need > to read > that specific row and might be more efficient in that case than to read a > big row every > time? > > -- > Regards Erik >