On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Erik Holstad <erikhols...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been looking at the source, but not quite find the things I'm looking > for, so I have a few > questions. > Are columns for a row stored in a serialized data structure on disk or > stored individually and > put into a data structure when the call is being made?
The former, but only for top-level columns -- subcolumns are all read at once for slices against supercolumns. (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-598)
