This is fixed in 1.0 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2894
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Tharindu Mathew <mcclou...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I noticed this line in the API docs, > > The method is not O(1). It takes all the columns from disk to calculate the > answer. The only benefit of the method is that you do not need to pull all > the columns over Thrift interface to count them. > Does this mean if a row has a large number of columns calling this method > might make it go OOM? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Regards, > > Tharindu > > blog: http://mackiemathew.com/ > > -- http://twitter.com/tjake