Perfectly normal with 3-7x increase in data size depending on you data schema.
Regards, Terje On 20 Jan 2011, at 23:17, "akshatbakli...@gmail.com" <akshatbakli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- > Akshat Bakliwal > Search Information and Extraction Lab > IIIT-Hyderabad > 09963885762 > WebPage >