On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Chris Goffinet <c...@chrisgoffinet.com> wrote:
> When creating a new CF, defaults are now in fact compression enabled.
For the record, that will be true starting in 1.1 but isn't be the
default before that.
--
Sylvain
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:50 AM, R. Verlangen <ro...@us2.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Check your log for messages about rebuilding indices: that might grow your
>> dataset some.
>>
>> One thing is for sure: the data import removed all the crap that lasted in
>> the 0.8.1 cluster (duplicates, thombstones etc). The decrease is fairly
>> dramatic but not unlogical at all.
>>
>>
>> 2012/3/16 Jeremiah Jordan <jeremiah.jor...@morningstar.com>
>>>
>>> I would guess more aggressive compaction settings, did you update rows or
>>> insert some twice?
>>> If you run major compaction a couple times on the 0.8.1 cluster does the
>>> data size get smaller?
>>>
>>> You can use the "describe" command to check if compression got turned on.
>>>
>>> -Jeremiah
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Ravikumar Govindarajan [ravikumar.govindara...@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:41 AM
>>> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>>> Subject: 0.8.1 Vs 1.0.7
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I ran some data import tests for cassandra 0.8.1 and 1.0.7. The results
>>> were a little bit surprising
>>>
>>> 0.8.1, SimpleStrategy, Rep_Factor=3,QUORUM Writes, RP, SimpleSnitch
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.A datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 140.61 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.B datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 139.92 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.C datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 138.81 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.D datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 139.78 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.E datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 137.44 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.F datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 138.48 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.G datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 140.52 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.H datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 145.24 GB
>>> 12.50%
>>>
>>> 1.0.7, NTS, Rep_Factor{DC1:3, DC2:2}, LOCAL_QUORUM writes, RP [DC2 m/c
>>> yet to join ring],
>>> PropertyFileSnitch
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.A DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 48.72 GB 12.50%
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.B DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 51.23 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.C DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 52.4 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.D DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 49.64 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.E DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 48.5 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.F DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 53.38 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.G DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 51.11 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> XXX.XXX.XXX.H DC1 RAC1 Up Normal 53.36 GB 12.50%
>>>
>>> There seems to be 3X savings in size for the same dataset running 1.0.7.
>>> I have not enabled compression for any of the CFs. Will it be enabled by
>>> default when creating a new CF in 1.0.7? cassandra.yaml is also mostly
>>> identical.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Ravi
>>
>>
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