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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Table options

There are several options that can be adjusted at table-creation time. Most of these options are present on all tables. If they are omitted from table creation, their default values are assumed. The following are a few of the table options:

  • Clustering order specifies the column(s) and direction by which the table data (within a partition) should be stored on disk. As Cassandra stores data written sequentially, it's also faster when it can read sequentially, so learning how to utilize clustering keys in your models can help with performance:
CLUSTERING ORDER BY (<clustering_key_name <ASC|DESC>)
  • This setting represents the false positive probability for the table's bloom filter. The value can range between 0.0 and 1.0, with ...
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