Re: Tips for using OrderedPartitioner

2012-02-10 Thread aaron morton
Also, if there's hot spot is there any way out of it, other than restarting from scratch… A cluster with a changed partitioner is like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how it changed and danged if it knows how to return your data . (You cannot change it.) By uniform I meat evenly

Re: Tips for using OrderedPartitioner

2012-02-09 Thread Tharindu Mathew
That sounds like writing a DB... indexing the index row :) By making the keys uniform Do you mean like keep the initial X characters the same or the last Y the same... Could you elaborate, please? Also, if there's hot spot is there any way out of it, other than restarting from scratch...

Re: Tips for using OrderedPartitioner

2012-01-24 Thread aaron morton
Nothing I can thin of other than making the keys uniform. Having a single index row with the RP can be a pain. Is there a way to partition it ? Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/01/2012, at 11:42 PM, Tharindu Mathew

Re: Tips for using OrderedPartitioner

2012-01-24 Thread R. Verlangen
If you would like to index your rows in an index-row, you could also choose for indexing the index-rows. This will scale up for any needs and create a tree structure. 2012/1/24 aaron morton aa...@thelastpickle.com Nothing I can thin of other than making the keys uniform. Having a single index

Tips for using OrderedPartitioner

2012-01-23 Thread Tharindu Mathew
Hi, We use Cassandra in a way we always want to range slice queries. Because, of the tendency to create hotspots with OrderedPartioner we decided to use RandomPartitioner. Then we would use, a row as an index row, holding values of the other row keys of the CF. I feel this has become a burden