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Subject: Help on Cassandra Limitaions
From: J Ramesh Kumar <rameshj1977@gmail.com>
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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

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