Re: Simple Compression Idea

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Malone
I don't see anything inherently wrong with your proposal, it would almost definitely be beneficial in certain scenarios. We use what could be called static compression (golomb-esque encodings) for some data types on our Cassandra clusters. It's useful for representing things like full precision

Re: Is SuperColumn necessary?

2010-05-07 Thread Mike Malone
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Vijay vijay2...@gmail.com wrote: I would rather be interested in Tree type structure where supercolumns have supercolumns in it. you dont need to compare all the columns to find a set of columns and will also reduce the bytes transfered for separator, at