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Stu Hood commented on CASSANDRA-674: ------------------------------------ To clarify, I included the "trunk gz 6" result since it is essentially a lower bound for block-based compression. On the other hand, there is some low hanging fruit that could decrease the size of the 674-2319 by another 1 to 1.5 bytes per column. > New SSTable Format > ------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-674 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-674 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core > Reporter: Stu Hood > Fix For: 1.0 > > Attachments: 674-v1.diff, 674-v2.tgz, 674-v3.tgz, 674-ycsb.log, > trunk-ycsb.log > > > Various tickets exist due to limitations in the SSTable file format, > including #16, #47 and #328. Attached is a proposed design/implementation of > a new file format for SSTables that addresses a few of these limitations. > This v2 implementation is not ready for serious use: see comments for > remaining issues. It is roughly the format described here: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FileFormatDesignDoc -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira