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Benedict commented on CASSANDRA-4175:
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See also CASSANDRA-6917 - IMO the best solution to this problem is an enum data
type, and then to convert all column names to that type.
> Reduce memory, disk space, and cpu usage with a column name/id map
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> Key: CASSANDRA-4175
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4175
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jason Brown
> Labels: performance
> Fix For: 3.0
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> We spend a lot of memory on column names, both transiently (during reads) and
> more permanently (in the row cache). Compression mitigates this on disk but
> not on the heap.
> The overhead is significant for typical small column values, e.g., ints.
> Even though we intern once we get to the memtable, this affects writes too
> via very high allocation rates in the young generation, hence more GC
> activity.
> Now that CQL3 provides us some guarantees that column names must be defined
> before they are inserted, we could create a map of (say) 32-bit int column
> id, to names, and use that internally right up until we return a resultset to
> the client.
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