Hi, That's what I was thinking. And I'm glad to read Apache solr in your answer as it is one of my main leads.
David 2009/12/17, Tim Underwood <[email protected]>: > It's not obvious to me how you'd do this in Cassandra but it sounds like a > Apache Solr might be a good fit. It lets you index documents with fields > and then allows you to query the documents based on field values and/or > ranges. > > -Tim > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, David MARTIN <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> That's a quite simple question : I have a big set of objects (around 3 >> millions) each containing several fields (> 20). Fields are just short >> strings, other can be larger strings (several hundreds characters, not so >> huge so), integers, ... >> >> I'd like to be able to look for objects based on one or more fields value >> or range. >> >> Is Cassandra as a nosql solution suitable for this kind of need or do I >> have to stay stuck to a database (using a denormalized approach) ? >> >> If Cassandra is suitable, what kind of data structure(s) do I need to >> adopt >> ? >> >> Thank you. >> >> David >> >
