Add 4 byte integer type
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Key: CASSANDRA-3031
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3031
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 0.8.4
Environment: any
Reporter: Radim Kolar
Fix For: 1.0
Cassandra currently lacks support for 4byte fixed size integer data type.
Java API Hector and C libcassandra likes to serialize integers as 4 bytes in
network order. Problem is that you cant use cassandra-cli to manipulate stored
rows. Compatibility with other applications using api following cassandra
integer encoding standard is problematic too.
Because adding new datatype/validator is fairly simple I recommend to add int4
data type. Compatibility with hector is important because it is most used Java
cassandra api and lot of applications are using it.
This problem was discussed several times already
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.hector.user/2125
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2585
It would be nice to have compatibility with cassandra-cli and other
applications without rewriting hector apps.
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