Currently there is a limitation that each row must fit in memory (with some
not insignificant overhead), thus having lots of columns per row can trigger
out-of-memory errors. This limitation should be removed in a future
release.
Please see:
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: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:41 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Consequences of having many columns
Currently there is a limitation that each row must fit in memory (with some not
insignificant overhead), thus having lots of columns per row can trigger
out-of-memory errors