Re : Best way to search content in Cassandra

2011-10-31 Thread Laurent Aufrechter
Hello, One good way to manage such things is to give your columns a name that will allow you to make some slices query... Your column name could be something like: image-png-other_identifier1 image-gif-other_identifier2 In your slice query, you could do a search for "image-png-A" to "image-png

A good key for data distribution over nodes

2011-10-10 Thread Laurent Aufrechter
Hi, I am planing to make tests on Cassandra with a few nodes. I want to create a column family where the key will be the date down to the second (like 2011/10/10-16:07:53). Doing so, my keys will be very similar from each others. Is it ok to use such keys if I want my data to be evenly distribu