Using hector (cassandra client) when I try to do delete, it deletes the columns…but leaves the row key behind…does anyone know why, and how can I delete that row key as well ?

Right now, I have to manually generate the composite key by formatting the subkeys together. It's ugly and not efficient. I wonder if Hector provides such set of APIs to handle composite keys in a ...

I'm working with Cassandra-0.8.2. I am working with the most recent version of Hector & My java version is 1.6.0_26 I'm very new to Cassandra & Hector. What I'm trying to do: 1. connect t...

i would be thankfull if a sophisticated user could name all possible solutions (best practices) how to fix Hector Client Timeouts like this: Caused by: me.prettyprint.hector.api.exceptions.HTimedO...

How does a Cassandra Secondary-Index work internally? The docs state it is some kind of Hash Index: Given i have the colum username="foobar" (Column username will be scondary index) in a CF User w...

I have code that uses Hector to access Cassandra and needs to create column families on the fly if and only if they don't already exist. What is the proper way to check for the existence of a colum...