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Stu Hood updated CASSANDRA-2398:
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    Attachment: example.diff

Attaching an example of noop compression.

The general idea is that AbstractType would implement LZO/LZMA by default, and 
subclasses could override in the future to add actual type specificity. The 
versioning in this example is MessagingService.version_, although we should 
discuss whether that is the right one.

> Type specific compression
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2398
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2398
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: Stu Hood
>              Labels: compression
>         Attachments: example.diff
>
>
> Cassandra has a lot of locations that are ripe for type specific compression. 
> A short list:
> Indexes
>  * Keys compressed as BytesType, which could default to LZO/LZMA
>  * Offsets (delta and varint encoding)
>  * Column names added by 2319
> Data
>  * Keys, columns, timestamps: see 
> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FileFormatDesignDoc
> A basic interface for type specific compression could be as simple as:
> {code:java}
> public void compress(int version, Iterator<ByteBuffer> from, int count, 
> DataOutput to) throws IOException
> public void decompress(int version, DataInput from, List<ByteBuffer> to) 
> throws IOException
> {code} 

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