Re: chunk lenght

2013-03-09 Thread Jeremy Hanna
These pages may have some helpful background for you: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/configuration/storage_configuration#compression-options http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-0-compression Cheers, Jeremy On Mar 9, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Kanwar Sangha wrote: > Hi – Can some

chunk lenght

2013-03-09 Thread Kanwar Sangha
Hi - Can someone help explain this parameter ? chunk_length_kb If we increase it from default 64k to 128k does it mean that the sstable will be compressed in blocks of 128k ? Does that mean if we are reading and writing data of 128k , it will give a better read/write performance ? Thanks, Kanw

Using Cassandra for bittorrent-like decentralized storage application?

2013-03-09 Thread Mihail Kostira
Hello C* users, I'm contemplating a decentralized protocol whereby data is distributed among several nodes, each node being owned by an independent, potentially malicious entity. The goal is to have the data available, tamper-proof, with no single point of ownership. Also: authorization for data i

Re: Incompatible Gossip 1.1.6 to 1.2.1 Upgrade?

2013-03-09 Thread Arya Goudarzi
despite my other issue having to do with the wrong version of cassandra, this one still stands as described. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Arya Goudarzi wrote: > OK. I upgraded one node from 1.1.6 to 1.2.2 today. Despite some new > problems that I had and I posted them in a separate email, th