On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ruebenacker, Oliver A < [email protected]> wrote:
> For the limit of number of cells > <http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations> (columns *rows) > per partition, I wonder what we mean by number of columns, since different > rows may have different columns? Is the number of columns the number of > columns of the biggest row, or the union of all columns across all rows? > E.g. if I have two rows, one has ten columns and the other has ten > different columns, would that be considered a total of ten or twenty > columns? > I tend to still think of this in terms of storage partitions and how many storage columns a given one may contain. It's possible that apache doc has not been updated to reflect the new language of "partitions" and "cells" and etc. A given partition can contain 2Bn storage columns, regardless of how many other columns there are in other partitions. =Rob
