See the test's in the article. The code I used for profiling is also available. Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27/03/2012, at 6:21 AM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > Thanks but if I do have to specify start and end columns then how much > overhead roughly would that translate to since reading metadata should be > constant overall? > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:18 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> > wrote: > Some information on query plans > http://thelastpickle.com/2011/07/04/Cassandra-Query-Plans/ > > Tl;Dr; Select columns with no start, in the natural Comparator order. > > Cheers > > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 25/03/2012, at 2:25 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > >> I have rows with around 2K-50K columns but when I do a query I only need to >> fetch few columns between start and end columns. I was wondering what >> performance overhead does it cause by using slice query with start and end >> columns? >> >> Looking at the code it looks like when you give start and end column it goes >> in IndexSliceReader logic, but it's hard to tell how much overhead on an >> average one would see? Or is it even worth worrying about? > >