Agreed, this is something that takes a little getting used to. Diagrams help: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/index http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/i

Agreed, this is something that takes a little getting used to. Diagrams help: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/index http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/index Max's posts also include some good examples, although they predate some features like column indexes: http://maxgrinev.com/2010/07/12/do-you-really-need-sql-to-do-it-all-in-cassandra/ http://maxgrinev.com/2010/07/12/do-you-really-need-sql-to-do...