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Edward Capriolo commented on CASSANDRA-2319:
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Is the plan to let users chose type on a per CF basis? If so by version 0.8.0
will a user chose between standard | compressed | wide when creating a CF.
I think the use case and description makes sense however
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The index will grow proportionally with the total number of columns, not with
the number of keys.
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This worries me. We tend to do getSlice for entire keys. So having these large
indexes, does not bring this use case much.
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For narrow rows, this change would have no effect, as they will not reach the
threshold for indexing anyway.
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What is the definition of a narrow row?
> Promote row index
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-2319
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2319
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Stu Hood
> Assignee: Stu Hood
> Labels: index, timeseries
> Fix For: 0.8
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> The row index contains entries for configurably sized blocks of a wide row.
> For a row of appreciable size, the row index ends up directing the third seek
> (1. index, 2. row index, 3. content) to nearby the first column of a scan.
> Since the row index is always used for wide rows, and since it contains
> information that tells us whether or not the 3rd seek is necessary (the
> column range or name we are trying to slice may not exist in a given
> sstable), promoting the row index into the sstable index would allow us to
> drop the maximum number of seeks for wide rows back to 2, and, more
> importantly, would allow sstables to be eliminated using only the index.
> An example usecase that benefits greatly from this change is time series data
> in wide rows, where data is appended to the beginning or end of the row. Our
> existing compaction strategy gets lucky and clusters the oldest data in the
> oldest sstables: for queries to recently appended data, we would be able to
> eliminate wide rows using only the sstable index, rather than needing to seek
> into the data file to determine that it isn't interesting. For narrow rows,
> this change would have no effect, as they will not reach the threshold for
> indexing anyway.
> A first cut design for this change would look very similar to the file format
> design proposed on #674:
> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FileFormatDesignDoc: row keys clustered,
> column names clustered, and offsets clustered and delta encoded.
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