CF that is like a non-clustered index, are key lookups that fast?

2010-06-15 Thread S Ahmed
If you store only the key mappings in a column family, for custom ordering of rows etc. for things like: friends = { user_id : { friendid1, friendid2, } } or topForumPosts = { forum_id1 : { post2343, post32343, post32223, ...} } Now on friends page or on the top_forum_posts

Re: CF that is like a non-clustered index, are key lookups that fast?

2010-06-15 Thread S Ahmed
well it won't be a range, it will be random key lookups. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Gary Dusbabek gdusba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:29, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: If you store only the key mappings in a column family, for custom ordering of rows etc. for