It is good to have short column names. They save space all the way from network transfer to in-memory usage to storage. It is also good idea to club immutables columns that are read together and store as single column. We gained significant overall performance benefits with this.
-Naren On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> wrote: > What are the implications of using short vs long column names? Is it > better to use short column names or longer ones? > > I know for MongoDB you are better of using short field names > http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Optimizing+Storage+of+Small+Objects > Does this apply to Cassandra column names? > > > -- Drew > -- Narendra Sharma Software Engineer *http://www.aeris.com <http://www.persistentsys.com>* *http://narendrasharma.blogspot.com/*
