I just did a du -h DataDump which showed 40G and du -h CassandraDataDump which showed 170G
am i doing something wrong. have you observed some compression in it. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Javier Canillas <javier.canil...@gmail.com>wrote: > How do you calculate your 40g data? When you insert it into Cassandra, you > need to convert the data into a Byte[], maybe your problem is there. > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:02 AM, akshatbakli...@gmail.com < > akshatbakli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am experiencing a unique situation. I loaded some data onto Cassandra. >> my data was about 40 GB but when loaded to Cassandra the data directory >> size is almost 170GB. >> >> This means the **data got inflated**. >> >> Is it the case just with me or some else is also facing the inflation or >> its the general behavior of Cassandra. >> >> I am using Cassandra 0.6.8. on Ubuntu 10.10 >> >> -- >> Akshat Bakliwal >> Search Information and Extraction Lab >> IIIT-Hyderabad >> 09963885762 >> WebPage >> <http://web.iiit.ac.in/%7Eakshat_b> >> > > -- Akshat Bakliwal Search Information and Extraction Lab IIIT-Hyderabad 09963885762 WebPage <http://web.iiit.ac.in/%7Eakshat_b>