For the first row, the key is: (2014, N, 1, සියළුම, යුද්ධ) and the value-part is (664).
Cheers, Jens ——— Jens Rantil Backend engineer Tink AB Email: jens.ran...@tink.se Phone: +46 708 84 18 32 Web: www.tink.se Facebook Linkedin Twitter On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Chamila Wijayarathna <cdwijayarat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jack, > So what will be the keys and values of the following CF instance? > year | category | frequency | word1 | word2 | id > ------+----------+-----------+------------------+-------------+------- > 2014 | N | 1 | සියළුම | යුද්ධ | 664 > 2014 | N | 1 | එච් | කාණ්ඩය | 12526 > 2014 | N | 1 | ගජබා | සුපර්ක්රොස් | 25779 > 2014 | N | 1 | බී| කාණ්ඩය | 12505 > Thank You! > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> > wrote: >> >> Correction: year and category form a “composite partition key”. >> >> frequency, word1, and word2 are “clustering columns”. >> >> The combination of a partition key with clustering columns is a “compound >> primary key”. >> >> Every CQL row will have a partition key by definition, and may optionally >> have clustering columns. >> >> “The key” should just be a synonym for “primary key”, although sometimes >> people are loosely speaking about “the partition” (which should be “the >> partition key”) rather than the CQL “row”. >> >> -- Jack Krupansky >> >> *From:* Chamila Wijayarathna <cdwijayarat...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:03 AM >> *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org >> *Subject:* Understanding what is key and partition key >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have read a lot about Cassandra and I read about key-value pairs, >> partition keys, clustering keys, etc.. >> Is key mentioned in key-value pair and partition key refers to same or are >> they different? >> >> >> CREATE TABLE corpus.bigram_time_category_ordered_frequency ( >> id bigint, >> word1 varchar, >> word2 varchar, >> year int, >> category varchar, >> frequency int, >> PRIMARY KEY((year, category),frequency,word1,word2)); >> >> >> In this schema, I know (year, category) is the compound partition key and >> frequency is the clustering key. What is the key here? >> >> >> Thank You! >> >> -- >> *Chamila Dilshan Wijayarathna,* >> SMIEEE, SMIESL, >> Undergraduate, >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering, >> University of Moratuwa. >> > -- > *Chamila Dilshan Wijayarathna,* > SMIEEE, SMIESL, > Undergraduate, > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > University of Moratuwa.