On 2010-05-25, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's true. But fundamentally Cassandra is expected to use more > space than mysql for a few reasons; usually the biggest factor is that > Cassandra has to write out each column name in each row, since column > names are dynamic unlike in mysql where you declare the columns once > for the whole table.
does this mean that using short column names (e.g., "f" instead of "first_seen") will save space when storing billions of rows? -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org
