On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Matthew Johnson <matt.john...@algomi.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems that I was misinformed on the “dynamically creating > timeseries columns” feature, and that this WAS deprecated in CQL3 – in > order to dynamically create columns I would have to issue an ‘ALTER TABLE’ > statement for every new column. I read one suggestions which is to use > collections instead - so basically have a single pre-defined column which > is a Map, say, and then add ‘timestamp : value’ into that map instead of a > new column for every timestamp. Would you say this is an acceptable > approach? Depending on the data model and the queries your application will use, you'll be using either clustering columns or collections (or a combination). If you need help modeling, you could start a new thread with the relevant details and I'm pretty sure you'll get some good suggestions here. -- Bests, Alex Popescu | @al3xandru Sen. Product Manager @ DataStax