Hi, Well, that was a word to word quotation. :)
Anyways, I think what you just said is a better explanation than those two previous ones. I hope it ends up on the wiki page because what it says there now is causing confusion, no matter how correct it technically is :) Cheers, Hannu 2013/9/6 Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> > Well, I don't know if that's what Patrick replied but that's not correct. > The wording *is* correct, though it does uses CQL3 terms. > For CQL3, the term "partition" is used to describe all the (CQL) rows that > share the same partition key (If you don't know what the latter is: > http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html). > So it says that all the rows sharing a particular partition key multiplied > by their number of effective columns is capped at 2 billions. > > In the thrift terminology, this means a 'thrift row' (not to be confused > with a CQL3 row) cannot have more that 2 billions thrift columns'. > > -- > Sylvain > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Hannu Kröger <hkro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I asked the same thing earlier and this is what patrick mcfadin replied: >> "It's not worded well. Essentially it's saying there is a 2B limit on a >> row. It should be worded a 'CQL row'" >> >> I hope helps. >> >> Cheers, >> Hannu >> >> On 6.9.2013, at 8.20, J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations >> >> In the above link, I found the below limitation, >> >> "The maximum number of cells (rows x columns) in a single partition is 2 >> billion.". >> >> Here what does "partition" mean ? Is it node (or) column family (or) >> anything else ? >> >> Thanks, >> Ramesh >> >> >
