Evan, > PS. The implementation of column families hasn't changed from > BigTable, but the use in modeling has. Common Cassandra designs are > more row-oriented than column-oriented.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're drawing between row-oriented modeling and column-oriented modeling. Are you talking about row-oriented modeling as placing entire objects in a column (today's nomenclature) and treating a cassandra column like a database row? Sandeep
