Hi Cassandra Users,

I am considering Cassandra as the main data store. Just a quick description of 
the entity structure that we are looking at to store/design schema for. So we 
have 3 entities A,B and C. A has one to many relationship with B and similar is 
true for B and C. Hence this gives us a tree like structure with A as a root. 
To store this structure in the Cassandra I am looking at the following col 
family schema design.


Col Family : For storing A
Id of A - Key
Date - Indexed
Byte format of A object

Col Family : For storing B
Id of B - Key
Date - Indexed field
Id of A to which B belongs - Indexed
Byte format of B object

Col Family : For storing C
Id of C - Key
Date - Indexed field
Id of A to which C belongs - Indexed
Id of B to which C belongs - Indexed
Byte format of C object


Maintaining an index on date because caches are supposed to be preloaded with 
say 3 days worth of data. Now the questions are

1.       Are the indexes local? i.e if node 1 holds say 10 keys that will only 
have indexes for theses 10 keys. In short - interested in knowing how is the 
index partitioned?

n  Just to appreciate the concern I have consider the case where we receive 100 
keys and we have 10 Cassandra nodes. Assuming even distribution of 10 keys each 
node. Will there be 10 partitions of the index on 10 different nodes - only of 
the keys it owns?


2.       Opinion about the schema design above. To list down the use cases -

n  Preload the processes on start up with 3 days of data. (The data store 
should hold data which dates as back as 3 years)

n   Given Id of A get all the B's and C's of the tree.


Hoping to hear soon.

Thanks and Regards,
Dushyant

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