Very interesting, thanks! On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Ed Anuff <e...@anuff.com> wrote: > Follow-up from last weeks discussion, I've been playing around with a simple > column comparator for composite column names that I put up on github. I'd > be interested to hear what people think of this approach. > > http://github.com/edanuff/CassandraCompositeType > > Ed > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Ed Anuff <e...@anuff.com> wrote: >> >> It might make sense to create a CompositeType subclass of AbstractType for >> the purpose of constructing and comparing these types of "composite" column >> names so that if you could more easily do that sort of thing rather than >> having to concatenate into one big string. >> >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Mike Malone <m...@simplegeo.com> wrote: >>> >>> The only thing SuperColumns appear to buy you (as someone pointed out to >>> me at the Cassandra meetup - I think it was Eric Florenzano) is that you can >>> use different comparator types for the Super/SubColumns, I guess..? But you >>> should be able to do the same thing by creating your own Column comparator. >>> I guess my point is that SuperColumns are mostly a convenience mechanism, as >>> far as I can tell. >>> Mike > >
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