Insert big list into Cassandra using python

Question

I have a problem inserting big list into Cassandra using python. I have a list of 3200 string that I want to save in Cassandra:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS my_test (
                id bigint PRIMARY KEY,
                list_strings list<text>
            );

When I'm reducing my list I have no problem. It works.

prepared_statement = session.prepare("INSERT INTO my_test (id, list_strings) VALUES (?, ?)")
        session.execute(prepared_statement, [id, strings[:5]])

But if I keep the totality of my list I have an error:

Error from server: code=1500 [Replica(s) failed to execute write] message="Operation failed - received 0 responses and 1 failures" info={'required_responses': 1, 'consistency': 'LOCAL_ONE', 'received_responses': 0, 'failures': 1}

How can I insert big list into Cassandra?

Answer 1

A DB array type is not supossed to hold that ammount of data. Using different rows of the table to store each string would be better:

    id     |    time    | strings
-----------+------------+---------
  bigint   | timestamp  | string
 partition | clustering |

Using id as the clustering key would be a bad solution as when requesting all the tweets from a user id, it will require to do a read in multiple nodes while when used as a partition key it will only require to read in one node per user.