Re: Cassandra 0.7 - Impact of row size and columns on compaction

2010-12-05 Thread Aaron Morton
AFAIK if the entire row can be read into memory the compaction will be faster. The in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb setting is used to decide how big the row can be before it has to use a slower two pass process.Also my understanding is that one of the main factors for compaction is the number of

Re: Cassandra 0.7 - Impact of row size and columns on compaction

2010-12-05 Thread Narendra Sharma
This is very useful. Thanks Aaron! -Naren On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Aaron Morton aa...@thelastpickle.comwrote: AFAIK if the entire row can be read into memory the compaction will be faster. The in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb setting is used to decide how big the row can be before it

Cassandra 0.7 - Impact of row size and columns on compaction

2010-12-03 Thread Narendra Sharma
What is the impact (performance and I/O) of row size (in bytes) on compaction? What is the impact (performance and I/O) of number of super columns and columns on compaction? Does anyone has any details and data to share? Thanks, Naren