The way compression is implemented, it is oblivious to the CF being wide-row or narrow-row. There is nothing intrinsically less efficient in the compression for wide-rows.
-- Sylvain On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I remember reading somewhere that C* compression is not very effective > when most of the CFs are in wide-row format and some folks turn the > compression off and use disk level compression as a workaround. Considering > that wide rows with composites are "first class citizens" in CQL3, is this > still the case? Has there been any improvements on this? > > Thanks, > > Drew