Using com.netflix.astyanax, I add entries for a given row as follows:

final ColumnListMutation<String> columnList = m.withRow(columnFamily, key);
columnList.putEmptyColumn(columnName);

Later I retrieve all my columns with:

  final OperationResult<ColumnList<String>> operationResult = keyspace
          .prepareQuery(columnFamily).getKey(key).execute();
  operationResult.getResult().getColumnNames();

The following correctly return all the columns I have added but the columns are not ordered accordingly to when they were entered in the database. Since each column has a timestamp associated to it, there ought to be a way to do exactly this but I don't see it. Is there?

Note: If there isn't, I can always change the code above to:

columnList.putColumn(ip,new Date());

and then retrieve the column values, order them accordingly, but that seems cumbersome, inefficient, and silly since each column already has a timestamp.

I know from PlayOrm that if you do column Slices, it returns those in order. In fact, playorm uses that do enable S-SQL in partitions and basically batches the column slicing which comes back in order or reverse order depending on how requested. You may want to do a column slice from 0 to MAXLONG.

I am not sure about getting the row though. I haven't tried that.

oh, and PlayOrm is just a mapping layer on top of astyanax though not really relational and more noSql'ish really as demonstrated by it's patterns pages

http://buffalosw.com/wiki/Patterns-Page/