Re: Compressing data types

2011-06-21 Thread aaron morton
Also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7206 Now part of brisk http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/brisk-1-0-beta-2-released Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 22 Jun 2011, at 04:04, Vijay wrote: > You might w

Re: Compressing data types

2011-06-21 Thread Vijay
You might want to watch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-47 Regards, On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Timo Nentwig wrote: > Hi! > > Just wondering why this doesn't already exist: wouldn't it make sense to > have > decorating data types that compress (gzip, snappy) other data ty

Compressing data types

2011-06-21 Thread Timo Nentwig
Hi! Just wondering why this doesn't already exist: wouldn't it make sense to have decorating data types that compress (gzip, snappy) other data types (esp. UTF8Type, AsciiType) transparently? -tcn