RCassandra (version 0.1-3)

RC.insert: Update functions to insert data into Cassandra

Description

RC.insert updates or inserts new column/value pairs

RC.mutate batchwise updates or inserts a list of keys, column families and columns/values.

Usage

RC.insert(conn, c.family, key, column, value = NULL, comparator = NULL, validator = NULL)
RC.mutate(conn, mutation)

Arguments

conn

connection handle obtained from RC.connect

c.family

name of the column family (string)

key

row key name (string) or a vector of (preferably contiguous) keys to use with the column names vector

column

column name - any vector supported by the comparator

value

optinally values to add into the columns - if specified, must be the same length as column. If NULL only the column is created

comparator

comparator (column name type) to be used - see RC.get for details

validator

validator (value type) to be used - see RC.get for details

mutation

a structure describing the desired mutation (see Cassandra documentation). In its simplest form it is a nested list: list(row.key1=list(c.family1=list(col1=val1, ...), ...), ...) so to add column "foo" with value "bar" to column family "table" and row "key" the mutation would be list(key=list(table=list(foo="bar"))). The innermost list can optionally be a character vector (if unnamed it specifies the column names, otherwise names are column names and elements are values). Only string keys and column names are supproted.

Value

conn

See Also

RC.connect, RC.use, RC.get