On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.fra...@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > Taking the discussion below to the dev list. > > Continuing the discussion, it seems to me that objects in Cassandra > might be quite large from this passage:
You've misunderstood. The "atom" in cassandra is a single column. These are almost always under 1KB. > So there is (apparently) lots of room for objects to become large with > respect to the size of the storage overhead of a single piece, at > which time using an online code could provide significant space > savings for a given level of resiliency. Trading space for latency is the wrong trade for us, even if erasure codes were a good fit for us architecturally, which they are not. Please read the links I referenced in the ticket for more background. -Jonathan
