Re: Performance impact of static vs dynamic columns and mixing the two in the same CF

2012-06-05 Thread aaron morton
(I'm assuming you are talking about column values here) > 1. Does specifying the type of a column affect performance other than the > cost of validating data as it is stored? > e.g. does it help compaction, etc? No. Validation is normally pretty light weight. > From my reading of the docs the

Performance impact of static vs dynamic columns and mixing the two in the same CF

2012-06-05 Thread Edward Sargisson
Hi all, A question has come up in our team about the performance impact of static vs dynamic columns. We'd like to ask two questions: Quick background: We are using a custom app to write to Cassandra using Hector. Production is Solaris and pre-prod is generally Centos. We're currently on 0.7