On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > -If you perform a query for a specific row key and a column name, does > it read the most recent SSTable first and if it finds a hit, does it > stop there or does it need to read through all the SStables (to find > most recent one) regardless of whether if found a hit on the most > recent SSTable or not? > > Reads all SSTables, as the only way to know which column instance has the > highest time stamp is to read them all.
Until https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2498 which makes this much faster. -Brandon
