Re: Meaning of compression chunk_length_kb

2012-06-14 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
> It means that uncompressed sstable data is compressed to approximately > chunk_length_kb and every read needs to read approximately chunk_length_kb and > decompress it to read any value from compressed range  ? > > Or it means approximately chunk_length_kb of sstable data is compressed and > stor

Meaning of compression chunk_length_kb

2012-06-14 Thread Mateusz Korniak
Hi ! What is meaning of "chunk_length_kb: sets the compression chunk size in kilobytes. " ? It means that uncompressed sstable data is compressed to approximately chunk_length_kb and every read needs to read approximately chunk_length_kb and decompress it to read any value from compressed range