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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-7464: ------------------------------------------- thrift row key = cql partition key static block refers to "static columns" here: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql-in-2-0-6 so basically, the goal is to give more semantic meaning to the "atoms" in the storage engine, by grouping them in categories like these. > Retire/replace sstable2json and json2sstable > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-7464 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7464 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne > Priority: Minor > > Both tools are pretty awful. They are primarily meant for debugging (there is > much more efficient and convenient ways to do import/export data), but their > output manage to be hard to handle both for humans and for tools (especially > as soon as you have modern stuff like composites). > There is value to having tools to export sstable contents into a format that > is easy to manipulate by human and tools for debugging, small hacks and > general tinkering, but sstable2json and json2sstable are not that. > So I propose that we deprecate those tools and consider writing better > replacements. It shouldn't be too hard to come up with an output format that > is more aware of modern concepts like composites, UDTs, .... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)