http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/isnt-tweet_id-the-remaining_key-instead-of-the-partition-key Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:17:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/isnt-tweet_id-the-remaining_key-instead-of-the-partition-key#post-6612 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:16:09 +0000 xedin 6612@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Hi tremendows, documentation is correct on tweet_id being partition key as user_id being first component of the primary key in timeline ColumnFamily is effectively a row key.</p> <p>Edit: Actually you are right, I have just confused composite terminology, we will let documentation team know about this, thanks! </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/isnt-tweet_id-the-remaining_key-instead-of-the-partition-key#post-6611 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:10:45 +0000 tremendows 6611@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>First of all, thanks for the excellent documentation.<br /> Secondly, I have a doubt at <a href="http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/ddl/column_family" rel="nofollow">http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/ddl/column_family</a></p> <p>At the "Timeline Table" part, it says:</p> <p>"The storage engine guarantees that the columns are clustered according to the partition key (tweet_id). ... "</p> <p>but, isn't tweet_id the remaining key instead of the partition key?</p> <p>Thanks for your help </p>