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Stu Hood updated CASSANDRA-2455:
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    Description: 
Counter values currently use a huge amount of space on disk:
{code}
(header + length + RF * (nodeid + count + clock))
==
(2 + 2 + RF * (16 + 8 + 8)) bytes
{code}

Type specific compression (as on CASSANDRA-2398) is a long term solution to 
this problem, but we need a short term fix to make a large volume of counters 
possible.

The largest and most redundant part of the counter is the nodeid, which is now 
16 bytes per replica. One proposed improvement would be keep a per-sstable 
dictionary of all replica sets, and to assume the replicas are sorted by nodeid 
in the counter value. This would allow us to encode the replica as a single 
integer in the counter value, and to use it to look up the replica set in the 
dictionary. Assuming an integer replica set id, you could allow for 2^32 
replica changes with 4 total bytes of overhead in each counter:
{code}
(header + length + replicasetid + RF (count + clock))
==
(2 + 2 + 4 + RF * (8 + 8)) bytes
{code}

  was:
Counter values currently use a huge amount of space on disk:
{{(header + length + RF * (nodeid + count + clock)) bytes}}
or
{{(2 + 2 + RF * (16 + 8 + 8)) bytes}}

Type specific compression (as on CASSANDRA-2398) is a long term solution to 
this problem, but we need a short term fix to make a large volume of counters 
possible.

The largest and most redundant part of the counter is the nodeid, which is now 
16 bytes per replica. One proposed fix would be keep a per-sstable dictionary 
of all replica sets, and to assume the replicas are sorted by nodeid in the 
counter value. This would allow us to encode the replica as a single integer in 
the counter value, and to use it to look up the replica set in the dictionary. 
Assuming an integer replica set id, you could allow for 2^32 replica changes 
with 4 total bytes of overhead in each counter:
{{(header + length + replicasetid + RF (count + clock)) bytes}}
or
{{(2 + 2 + 4 + RF * (8 + 8)) bytes}}


> Improve counter disk usage
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2455
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2455
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Stu Hood
>
> Counter values currently use a huge amount of space on disk:
> {code}
> (header + length + RF * (nodeid + count + clock))
> ==
> (2 + 2 + RF * (16 + 8 + 8)) bytes
> {code}
> Type specific compression (as on CASSANDRA-2398) is a long term solution to 
> this problem, but we need a short term fix to make a large volume of counters 
> possible.
> The largest and most redundant part of the counter is the nodeid, which is 
> now 16 bytes per replica. One proposed improvement would be keep a 
> per-sstable dictionary of all replica sets, and to assume the replicas are 
> sorted by nodeid in the counter value. This would allow us to encode the 
> replica as a single integer in the counter value, and to use it to look up 
> the replica set in the dictionary. Assuming an integer replica set id, you 
> could allow for 2^32 replica changes with 4 total bytes of overhead in each 
> counter:
> {code}
> (header + length + replicasetid + RF (count + clock))
> ==
> (2 + 2 + 4 + RF * (8 + 8)) bytes
> {code}

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