Hi everyone, Does prefix encoding apply to rows in MemStores or does it only apply to rows on disk in HFiles? I'm trying to decide if I should still favor larger values in order to not repeat keys, column families, and qualifiers more than necessary and while prefix encoding seems to negate that concern for storage on disk, I'm not sure if it's still applicable to in-memory storage.
Also, I had two other quick (unrelated) questions and I assume it'd be less annoying if I put them all in one email: 1. Do column families defined for a table introduce any overhead for rows that don't put any values in them? I don't think that's the case but I wanted to be sure. 2. Do writes with the same key, column family, qualifier, and timestamp count towards the version limit? Thanks for the help!
