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Tupshin Harper commented on CASSANDRA-6167:
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Sylvain: so given the complexity and ambiguity about best approach for my
example above, I'll just return to the simple:
Partition represents a slice of time-series events for a particular source
Client wants to know if value >= X appeared in the last 10,000 events (or since
time Y). Outlier detection is one reason. There are others.
Currently we would either need to do a single large slice, and retrieve all
10,000 events even if the value was found in the first few, or get smaller
batches and keep retrieving additional batches until the target value is found.
No matter what the syntax or implementation is, I'm quite convinced in the
utility of being able to short circuit reading from a partition.
> Add end-slice termination predicate
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6167
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6167
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: API, Core
> Reporter: Tupshin Harper
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: ponies
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> When doing performing storage-engine slices, it would sometimes be beneficial
> to have the slice terminate for other reasons other than number of columns or
> min/max cell name.
> Since we are able to look at the contents of each cell as we read it, this is
> potentially doable with very little overhead.
> Probably more challenging than the storage-engine implementation itself, is
> to come up with appropriate CQL syntax (Thrift, should we decide to support
> it, would be trivial).
> Two possibilities ar
> 1) special where function:
> SELECT pk,event from cf WHERE pk IN (1,5,10,11) AND
> partition_predicate({predicate})
> or a bigger language change, but i think one I prefer. more like:
> 2) SELECT pk,event from cf where pk IN (1,5,10,11) UNTIL PARTITION event
> {predicate}
> Neither feels perfect, but I do like the fact that the second one at least
> clearly states what it is intended to do.
> By using "UNTIL PARTITION", we could re-use the UNTIL keyword to handle other
> kinds of early-termination of selects that the coordinator might be able to
> do, such as stop retrieving additional rows from shards after a particular
> criterion was met.
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