Re: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID?

2011-06-15 Thread chovatia jaydeep
here. Thank you, Jaydeep From: Sameer Farooqui cassandral...@gmail.com To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 5:16 PM Subject: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID? I would like to store some timestamped user info in a Column Family

When does it make sense to use TimeUUID?

2011-06-14 Thread Sameer Farooqui
the MAC of the generating computer in order to do a column slice, right? When does it make sense to use TimeUUID vs just a time string like 20110130141500 and comparator type UTF8? - Sameer

RE: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID?

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin
, or least-recent order. From: Sameer Farooqui [mailto:cassandral...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:16 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID? I would like to store some timestamped user info in a Column Family with the usernames as the row

RE: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID?

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin
Correction. TimeUUID comparisons FIRST compare the time-based portion, then go on to the other portion. From: Sameer Farooqui [mailto:cassandral...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:16 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID? I would like

Re: When does it make sense to use TimeUUID?

2011-06-14 Thread Sameer Farooqui
most-recent, or least-recent order. *From:* Sameer Farooqui [mailto:cassandral...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:16 PM *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* When does it make sense to use TimeUUID? I would like to store some timestamped user info in a Column Family