I think Cassandra should provide an configurable option on per column family basis to do columns sorting by time-stamp rather than column names. This would be really helpful to maintain time-sorted columns without using up the column name as time-stamps which might otherwise be used to store most relevant column names useful for retrievals. Very frequently we need to store data sorted in time order. Therefore I think this may be a very general requirement & not specific to just my use-case alone.
Does it makes sense to create an issue for this ? On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:38 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > If you mean order by the column timestamp (as passed by the client) that > it not possible. > > Can you use your own timestamps as the column name and store them as long > values ? > > Aaron > > On 25 Mar 2011, at 09:30, Narendra Sharma wrote: > > > Cassandra 0.7.4 > > Column names in my CF are of type byte[] but I want to order columns by > timestamp. What is the best way to achieve this? Does it make sense for > Cassandra to support ordering of columns by timestamp as option for a > column family irrespective of the column name type? > > > > Thanks, > > Naren > >
