You can fill your boots. So long as your boots have a capacity of 2 billion.
Background ... http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/LargeDataSetConsiderations http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/373483/new_cassandra_can_pack_two_billion_columns_into_row/ aaron On 8/03/2011, at 4:57 AM, Jean-Christophe Sirot <jean-christophe.si...@cryptolog.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On 03/06/2011 06:35 PM, Aditya Narayan wrote: >> Next, I also need to store the blogComments which I am planning to >> store all, in another single row. 1 comment per column. Thus the >> entire information about the a single comment like commentBody, >> commentor would be serialized(using google Protocol buffers) and >> stored in a single column, > > Is there any limitation/issue in having a signle row with a lot of columns? > For instance, can I have millions of columns in a single row? > > -- > Jean-Christophe Sirot >