How wide rows are structured in CQL3

Hi, My impression from reading docs is that in old versions of Cassandra, you could create very wide rows, say with timestamps as column names for time series data, and read an ordered slice of the row. So, RowKeyColumns === == RowKey1 1:val1 2:val2 3:val3 N:valN With this

Re: How wide rows are structured in CQL3

Does this effectively create the same storage structure? Yes. SELECT Value FROM X WHERE RowKey = 'RowKey1' AND TimeStamp BETWEEN 100 AND 1000; select value from X where RoWKey = 'foo' and timestamp = 100 and timestamp = 1000; I also don't understand some of the things like WITH COMPACT