If I understand correctly, the distinction between supercolumns and subcolumns is critical to good database design if you want to use random partitioning: you can do range queries on subcolumns but not on supercolumns.
Is this correct? On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that once we have built-in indexing (CASSANDRA-749) you can > make a good case for dropping supercolumns (at least, dropping them > from the public API and reserving them for internal use). > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Schubert Zhang <zson...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I don't think the SuperColumn is so necessary. > > I think this level of logic can be leaved to application. > > > > Do you think so? > > > > If SuperColumn is needed, as > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-598, we should build > index > > in SuperColumns level and SubColumns level. > > Thus, the levels of index is too many. > > > > >
