Hello Lewis, I do not know Cassandra and I am not sure about how persistence is achieved in gora-cassandra, but to my understanding since Gora is using Avro to serialise the data then Bytes is the way to go. But I might be completely wrong here.
Best, A. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > Currently we persist everything into blobs within Cassandra. > > https://github.com/apache/gora/blob/master/gora-cassandra/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/cassandra/store/CassandraStore.java#L513 > This is not just for Records... it is for all types > I am wondering what the gains are for us to store everything within Bytes. > Do we need to do this? > I very rarely Query using Gora... I just use the native Query mechanism for > wherever my data resides. > This does however mean, in the case of Cassandra for example, that I use > cqlsh which consequently means I get Bytes when I try to get anything from > anything. > We know this already... but what I wonder is if we can take advantage of > Cassandra Type support. > Thanks > Lewis > > > > > -- > *Lewis* >
