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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:57:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: simple implementation of counters
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On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdolgy@gmail.com> wrote:
> First question I have is about the definition. =A0A column within a
> standard column family cannot be a counter column type?

Right. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2614 is open to
address this but that's going to be post-0.8.0.

> Second question: =A0If I want to implement counters, they have to exist
> in a seperate column family from the rest of my data?

Isn't that the same as the first question? :)

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Jonathan Ellis
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