Re: Composite columns vs Protocol Buffers when all you need is to pack many things in a single column

2011-12-08 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
CompositeType is meant as a comparator to deal with composite column names. While it is possible to use it as a column value validator, I don't see any good use of that. -- Sylvain On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Asil Klin asdk...@gmail.com wrote: I know Composite columns are used for some very

Composite columns vs Protocol Buffers when all you need is to pack many things in a single column

2011-12-07 Thread Asil Klin
I know Composite columns are used for some very useful scenarios(like to replace super columns) which cannot be helped with anything else. But, for situations when you just need to pack many things in a single column efficiently and such that the retrievals are also performant, which one should