Dude, I never mentioned the server side, sorry if it wasn't obvious. As for python being slow, I'm not going away from it. It performs amazingly well in other circumstances.
Jonathan Ellis-3 wrote: > > That doesn't make sense to me. IntegerType validation is a no-op and > LongType validation is pretty close (just a size check). > > If you meant that the conversion is killing performance on your > client, you should switch to a more performant client language. :) > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:56 PM, buddhasystem <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: >> >> I've been too smart for my own good trying to type columns, on the theory >> that it would later increase performance by having more efficient >> comparators in place. So if a string represents an integer, I would >> convert >> it to an integer and declare the column as such. Same for LONG. >> >> What I found is that during the write operation, the type conversion >> kills >> the performance. It's really not too trivial amount of time. >> >> Has anyone had a similar experience? >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Virtues-and-pitfall-of-using-TYPES-tp6042432p6042432.html >> Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com > > -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Virtues-and-pitfall-of-using-TYPES-tp6042432p6042601.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
