Cassandra offers compression out of the box. Look into the options available upon table creation.
The use of orderedpartitioner is an anti-pattern 999/1000 times. It creates hot spots - the use of wide rows can often accomplish the same result through the use of clustering columns. -- Colin 320-221-9531 > On May 17, 2014, at 10:15 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > > So I see that Cassandra doesn't support bmdiff/vcdiff. > > Is this primarily because most people aren't using the ordered partitioner? > > bmdiff gets good compression by storing similar content next to each page on > disk. So lots of HTML content would compress well. > > but if everything is being stored at random locations, you wouldn't get that > bump in storage / compression reduction. > > -- > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: San Francisco, CA > Skype: burtonator > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile > > War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Corporations are > people.
