Sorting in CassandraThe Cassandra distributed data store is, at heart, a key/value storage system. Unlike pure key/value storage systems, however, Cassandra implements first-class notions of key and column ordering. Dominic Williams covered a good chunk of the topic wonderfully in his post “Cassandra: RandomPartitioner vs OrderPreservingPartitioner”. But his framing of the question is a bit different than mine and wa
