[koeninger]

I understand the nervousness, but I was able to convert a thrift/hector time series model to exactly equivalent CQL3 without too much trouble. The (perhaps non-obvious) options involved were "WITH COMPACT STORAGE" for wide rows and "WITH CLUSTERING ORDER BY (blah DESC)" for a reversed comparator.

http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/webhelp/...

[relistan]

Thanks for the pointers. We are also looking at that as a future plan. We are currently using Thrift which has been rightly pointed out and which I should have mentioned.