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Jason Brown commented on CASSANDRA-6922:
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bq. Curious what the legitimate use cases are ...
A long time ago, and I'm not remembering so well, there was a project back at
netflix where the users wanted to map a set of their middle-ware services to an
explicit range of the database. They wanted to be able to read the entire range
into their app's memory for metrics calculation and such. Also, as per
[~xedin]'s earlier comment, it looks like Titan makes use of BOP. I wonder if
this is still true? Poking at the current github code for Titan, I do see some
some references to BOP, but not sure if it's legacy or still used or ....
> Investigate if we can drop ByteOrderedPartitioner and
> OrderPreservingPartitioner in 3.0
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6922
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6922
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Marcus Eriksson
> Fix For: 3.0
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> We would need to add deprecation warnings in 2.1, rewrite a lot of unit
> tests, and perhaps provide tools/guidelines to migrate an existing data set
> to Murmur3Partitioner.
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