Re: Cassandra Database using too much space

2014-12-15 Thread Jack Krupansky
: Cassandra Database using too much space Hi Jack , Thanks for replying. Here what I meant by 1.5M words is not 1.5 Distincts words, it is the count of all words we added to the corpus (total word instances). Then in word_frequency and word_ordered_frequency CFs, we have a row for each distinct word

Re: Cassandra Database using too much space

2014-12-14 Thread Ryan Svihla
Well your data model looks fine at a glance, a lot of tables, but they appear to be mapping to logically obvious query paths. This denormalization will make your queries fast but eat up more disk, and if disk is really a pain point, Id suggest looking at your economics a bit, and look at your

Re: Cassandra Database using too much space

2014-12-14 Thread Chamila Wijayarathna
Hi Ryan, Thank you very much. This helps a lot. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Ryan Svihla rsvi...@datastax.com wrote: Well your data model looks fine at a glance, a lot of tables, but they appear to be mapping to logically obvious query paths. This denormalization will make your queries

Re: Cassandra Database using too much space

2014-12-14 Thread Jack Krupansky
It looks like you will have quite a few “combinatoric explosions” to cope with. In addition to 1.5M words, you have bigrams – combinations of two and three words. You need to get a handle on the cardinality of each of your tables. Bigrams and trigrams could give you who knows how many millions

Re: Cassandra Database using too much space

2014-12-14 Thread Chamila Wijayarathna
Hi Jack , Thanks for replying. Here what I meant by 1.5M words is not 1.5 Distincts words, it is the count of all words we added to the corpus (total word instances). Then in word_frequency and word_ordered_frequency CFs, we have a row for each distinct word with its frequency (two CFs have same