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C. Scott Andreas updated CASSANDRA-8861: ---------------------------------------- Component/s: CQL > HyperLogLog Collection Type > --------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-8861 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8861 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: CQL > Reporter: Drew Kutcharian > Priority: Major > Fix For: 4.x > > > Considering that HyperLogLog and its variants have become pretty popular in > analytics space and Cassandra has "read-before-write" collections (Lists), I > think it would not be too painful to add support for HyperLogLog "collection" > type. They would act similar to CQL 3 Sets, meaning you would be able to > "set" the value and "add" an element, but you won't be able to remove an > element. Also, when getting the value of a HyperLogLog collection column, > you'd get the cardinality. > There are a couple of good attributes with HyperLogLog which fit Cassandra > pretty well. > - Adding an element is idempotent (adding an existing element doesn't change > the HLL) > - HLL can be thought of as a CRDT, since we can safely merge them. Which > means we can merge two HLLs during read-repair. But if that's too much work, > I guess we can even live with LWW since these counts are "estimates" after > all. > There is already a proof of concept at: > http://vilkeliskis.com/blog/2013/12/28/hacking_cassandra.html -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@cassandra.apache.org