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C. Scott Andreas updated CASSANDRA-8861:
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    Component/s: CQL

> HyperLogLog Collection Type
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>                 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
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> 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



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