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Jeff Jirsa commented on CASSANDRA-9779:
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I'm wondering if given DTCS and other optimization we have internally this
really bring that much to the table.
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I've been watching this ticket primarily because if 'append only' tables exist,
it should be possible to special case
{{CompactionController.getFullyExpiredSSTables}} so that DTCS/TWCS can drop
tables with timestamp overlaps (sstable expired blockers), which would be
significantly more efficient than trying to split out read-repaired cells
during compaction a la CASSANDRA-10496
> Append-only optimization
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-9779
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9779
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: CQL
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Fix For: 3.x
>
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> Many common workloads are append-only: that is, they insert new rows but do
> not update existing ones. However, Cassandra has no way to infer this and so
> it must treat all tables as if they may experience updates in the future.
> If we added syntax to tell Cassandra about this ({{WITH INSERTS ONLY}} for
> instance) then we could do a number of optimizations:
> - Compaction would only need to worry about defragmenting partitions, not
> rows. We could default to DTCS or similar.
> - CollationController could stop scanning sstables as soon as it finds a
> matching row
> - Most importantly, materialized views wouldn't need to worry about deleting
> prior values, which would eliminate the majority of the MV overhead
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