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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-3647: ------------------------------------------- The alternative is we say "all maps, lists, and sets will be represented as CT(ascii, UTF8)" and json-encode things. On the one hand, that's horribly inefficient space-wise for ints and uuids. On the other hand, json support is high on the list of motivations here, and that would simplify things a lot. (And if we used a library to represent utf8 as byte[] instead of String, that would mitigate the overhead of representing as json by roughly 50% for common usage.) > Support arbitrarily nested "documents" in CQL > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-3647 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3647 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: API, Core > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Labels: cql > > Composite columns introduce the ability to have arbitrarily nested data in a > Cassandra row. We should expose this through CQL. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira