With Cassandra you solve these kinds of problems by doing more work when you insert your data — which sounds like it would be slow, but Cassandra is designed for fast writes, and you’re probably going to read the data many more times than you write it so it makes sense when you consider the … Read more
The timeout is because Cassandra is taking longer than the timeout (default is 10 seconds) to return the data. For your query, Cassandra will attempt to fetch the entire dataset before returning. For more than a few records this can easily take longer than the timeout. For queries that are producing lots of data you … Read more
I remembered seeing someone answer this question in the Cassandra user mailing list a short while back, but I cannot find the exact message right now. Ironically, Cassandra Evangelist Rebecca Mills just posted an article that addresses this issue (Things you should be doing when using Cassandra drivers…points #13 and #22). But the answer is … Read more
There is a lot of confusion around this, I will try to make it as simple as possible. The primary key is a general concept to indicate one or more columns used to retrieve data from a Table. The primary key may be SIMPLE and even declared inline: create table stackoverflow_simple ( key text PRIMARY … Read more