Nate, is this all against a single Cassandra server, or do you have a ring
setup? If you do have a ring setup, what is your replicationfactor set to?
Also what ConsistencyLevel are you writing with when storing the values?

-R

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Nate Sammons <nsamm...@ften.com> wrote:

> Hello,****
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> I’m experimenting with Cassandra (DataStax Enterprise 1.0.3), and I’ve got
> a CF with several secondary indexes to try out some options.  Right now I
> have the following to create my CF using the CLI:****
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> create column family MyTest with****
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>   key_validation_class = UTF8Type****
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>   and comparator = UTF8Type****
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>   and column_metadata = [****
>
>       -- absolute timestamp for this message, also indexed
> year/month/day/hour/minute****
>
>       -- index these as they are low cardinality****
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>       {column_name:messageTimestamp, validation_class:LongType},****
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>       {column_name:messageYear, validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:
> KEYS},****
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>       {column_name:messageMonth, validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:
> KEYS},****
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>       {column_name:messageDay, validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:
> KEYS},****
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>       {column_name:messageHour, validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:
> KEYS},****
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>       {column_name:messageMinute, validation_class:IntegerType,
> index_type: KEYS},****
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>                 … other non-indexed columns defined****
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>   ];****
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> So when I insert data, I calculate a year/month/day/hour/minute and set
> these values on a Hector ColumnFamilyUpdater instance and update that way.
> Then later I can query from the command line with CQL such as:****
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>                 get MyTest where messageYear=2011 and messageMonth=6 and
> messageDay=1 and messageHour=13 and messageMinute=44;****
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> etc.  This generally works, however at some point queries that I know
> should return data no longer return any rows.****
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> So for instance, part way through my test (inserting 250K rows), I can
> query for what should be there and get data back such as the above query,
> but later that same query returns 0 rows.  Similarly, with fewer clauses in
> the expression, like this:****
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>                 get MyTest where messageYear=2011 and messageMonth=6;****
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> Will also return 0 rows.****
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> ???????****
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> Any idea what could be going wrong?  I’m not getting any exceptions in my
> client during the write, and I don’t see anything in the logs (no errors
> anyway).****
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> A second question – is what I’m doing insane?  I’m not sure that
> performance on CQL queries with multiple indexed columns is good (does
> Cassandra intelligently use all available indexes on these queries?)****
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> Thanks,****
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> -nate****
>
> ****
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