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Aaron

On 5 Dec 2010, at 15:41, Joshua Partogi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am still new with cassandra and from what I know so far cassandra is based 
> on Google BigTables model. And one thing that we can do with BigTable is 
> query data using GQL. I tried looking for information about query language 
> that is built on top of cassandra and ends with no luck. The only way we can 
> query over data is either using Range query or Hadoop Map-Reduce. CMIIW. Now 
> with range query, it would be less expressive than query language while with 
> Hadoop Map-Reduce I have heard that it is not suitable for realtime data 
> query. So is it possible to implement query language on top of Cassandra? Or 
> is MapReduce and range query the only option we have?
> 
> Thanks for the insights.
> 
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