I would avoid taking away a feature even if it works in narrow set of > use-cases. I would instead suggest - > > 1. Leave it disabled by default. > 2. Detect when Row Cache has a low hit rate and warn the operator to turn > it off. Cassandra should ideally detect this and do it automatically. > 3. Move to Caffeine instead of OHC. > > I would suggest having this as the middle ground. >
Yes, I'm ok with this. (2) can also be a guardrail: soft value when to warn, hard value when to disable.
