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T Jake Luciani commented on CASSANDRA-1278: ------------------------------------------- I don't think we'd need to change the client facing API, I was thinking of just moving more of the work to the client. We could make a java based importtool that a user can pipe the CPT format serialized data into to which encodes it to data to be streamed to the nodes. That way most of the work of encoding / decoding happens locally and users can write their loaders in any language. > Make bulk loading into Cassandra less crappy, more pluggable > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-1278 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1278 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Tools > Reporter: Jeremy Hanna > Assignee: Matthew F. Dennis > Fix For: 0.7.2 > > Attachments: 1278-cassandra-0.7.txt > > Original Estimate: 40h > Time Spent: 40.67h > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Currently bulk loading into Cassandra is a black art. People are either > directed to just do it responsibly with thrift or a higher level client, or > they have to explore the contrib/bmt example - > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/BinaryMemtable That contrib module requires > delving into the code to find out how it works and then applying it to the > given problem. Using either method, the user also needs to keep in mind that > overloading the cluster is possible - which will hopefully be addressed in > CASSANDRA-685 > This improvement would be to create a contrib module or set of documents > dealing with bulk loading. Perhaps it could include code in the Core to make > it more pluggable for external clients of different types. > It is just that this is something that many that are new to Cassandra need to > do - bulk load their data into Cassandra. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.