Re: column bloat

2011-05-11 Thread Terje Marthinussen
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:06 AM, aaron morton wrote: > For a reasonable large amount of use cases (for me, 2 out of 3 at the > moment) supercolumns will be units of data where the columns (attributes) > will never change by themselves or where the data does not change anyway > (archived data). > >

Re: column bloat

2011-05-10 Thread aaron morton
> For a reasonable large amount of use cases (for me, 2 out of 3 at the moment) > supercolumns will be units of data where the columns (attributes) will never > change by themselves or where the data does not change anyway (archived data). Can you use a standard CF and pack the multiple columns

Re: column bloat

2011-05-10 Thread Terje Marthinussen
> Anyway, to sum that up, expiring columns are 1 byte more and > non-expiring ones are 7 bytes > less. Not arguing, it's still fairly verbose, especially with tons of > very small columns. > Yes, you are right, sorry. Trying to do one thing to many at the same time. My brain filtered out part of t

Re: column bloat

2011-05-10 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Terje Marthinussen wrote: > Hi, > If you make a supercolumn today, what you end up with is: > - short  + "Super Column name" > - int (local deletion time) > - long (delete time) > Byte array of  columns each with: >   - short + "column name" >   - int (TTL) >   - i