Re: about cassandra compression

2010-07-27 Thread Jeremy Davis
I've been wondering about this question as well, but from a different angle. More along the lines of should I bother to compress myself? Specifically in cases where I might want to take several small columns and compress into 1 more compact column. Each column by itself is pretty spartan and won't

Re: about cassandra compression

2010-07-26 Thread john xie
thanks 2010/7/26 Ran Tavory > cassandra doesn't compress before storing, no. > It may be beneficial to compress, depending on the size of your data, > network latency, disk size and data compressability... You'll need to test. > I sometimes compress, depending on data size but it's done in the c

Re: about cassandra compression

2010-07-26 Thread Ran Tavory
cassandra doesn't compress before storing, no. It may be beneficial to compress, depending on the size of your data, network latency, disk size and data compressability... You'll need to test. I sometimes compress, depending on data size but it's done in the client, On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:31 PM

about cassandra compression

2010-07-26 Thread john xie
is cassandra compression before stored? when I stored the data, is compression beneficial to reduce the storage space?