I'm wondering about good strategies for picking keys that I want to be lexically sorted in a super column family. For example, my data looks like this:
[user1_uuid][connections][some_key_for_user2] = "" [user1_uuid][connections][some_key_for_user3] = "" I was thinking that I wanted some_key_for_user2 to be sorted by a user's name. So I was thinking I set the subcolumn compareWith to UTF8Type or BytesType and construct a key [user's lastname + user's firstname + user's uuid] This would result in sorted subcolumn and user list. That's fine. But I wonder what would happen if, say, a user changes their last name. Happens rarely but I imagine people getting married and modifying their name. Now the sort is no longer correct. There seems to be some bad consequences to creating keys based on data that can change. So what is the general (elegant, easy to maintain) strategy here? Always sort in your server-side code and don't bother trying to have the data sorted? I'm a cassandra noob with all my experience in relational DBMS. TIA Pete
