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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-2319:
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bq. For wide rows, the index entry also ship with the row deletion times
Why just wide rows?
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Because for narrow ones, we'll end up seeking at the beginning of the row,
where the deletion times are anyway.
bq. How did this work out, did it end up simplifying compression?
We ended up making compression at the SequentialWriter level, i.e. transparent
from the data and index format, so this end up having no interaction whatsoever
with compression.
> Promote row index
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-2319
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2319
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Stu Hood
> Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
> Labels: index, timeseries
> Fix For: 1.2
>
> Attachments: 2319-v1.tgz, 2319-v2.tgz, promotion.pdf, version-f.txt,
> version-g-lzf.txt, version-g.txt
>
>
> The row index contains entries for configurably sized blocks of a wide row.
> For a row of appreciable size, the row index ends up directing the third seek
> (1. index, 2. row index, 3. content) to nearby the first column of a scan.
> Since the row index is always used for wide rows, and since it contains
> information that tells us whether or not the 3rd seek is necessary (the
> column range or name we are trying to slice may not exist in a given
> sstable), promoting the row index into the sstable index would allow us to
> drop the maximum number of seeks for wide rows back to 2, and, more
> importantly, would allow sstables to be eliminated using only the index.
> An example usecase that benefits greatly from this change is time series data
> in wide rows, where data is appended to the beginning or end of the row. Our
> existing compaction strategy gets lucky and clusters the oldest data in the
> oldest sstables: for queries to recently appended data, we would be able to
> eliminate wide rows using only the sstable index, rather than needing to seek
> into the data file to determine that it isn't interesting. For narrow rows,
> this change would have no effect, as they will not reach the threshold for
> indexing anyway.
> A first cut design for this change would look very similar to the file format
> design proposed on #674:
> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FileFormatDesignDoc: row keys clustered,
> column names clustered, and offsets clustered and delta encoded.
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