When I migrated data from our RDBMS, I hashed columns names to integers.
This makes for some
footwork, but the space gain is clearly there so it's worth it. I
de-hash on read.
Maxim
On 2/10/2012 5:15 PM, Narendra Sharma wrote:
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
<mailto: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
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