@Brandon : I just created a jira issue to request this type of comparator along with Cassandra.
It is about a UTF8 comparator that provides case insensitive ordering of columns. See issue here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4245 On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ertio Lew <ertio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to add a custom comparator to a cluster, to sort columns in a > certain > > customized fashion. How do I add the class to the cluster ? > > I highly recommend against doing this, because you'll be locked in to > your comparator and not have an easy way out. I dare say if none of > the currently available comparators meet your needs, you're doing > something wrong. > > -Brandon >