On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Jason Wee <peich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In Cassandra 1.2 and later, the Bloom filter and compression offset map > that store this metadata reside off-heap, greatly increasing the capacity > per node of data that Cassandra can handle efficiently. In Cassandra 2.0, > the partition summary also resides off-heap. > > How do we determine if a cassandra component is on heap or offheap? > Solely by the Cassandra version. Are you asking about a particular component not mentioned above? > > By off-heap, it means that the object is stored *not* in the allocated > heap in jvm but in native memory? > That's correct. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
