Thanks Tyler!
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Aditya Narayan <ady...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can I have some more feedback about my schema perhaps somewhat more >> criticisive/harsh ? > > It sounds reasonable to me. > > Since you're writing/reading all of the subcolumns at the same time, I would > opt for a standard column with the tags serialized into a column value. > > I don't think you need to worry about row lengths here. > > Depending on the reminder size and how many times it's likely to be repeated > in the timeline, you could explore denormalizing a bit more by storing the > reminders in the timelines themselves, perhaps with a separate row per > (user, tag) combination. This would cut down on your seeks quite a bit, but > it may not be necessary at this point (or at all). > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > Software Engineer, DataStax > Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library > >
