How do you calculate your 40g data? When you insert it into Cassandra, you need to convert the data into a Byte[], maybe your problem is there.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:02 AM, akshatbakli...@gmail.com < akshatbakli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing a unique situation. I loaded some data onto Cassandra. > my data was about 40 GB but when loaded to Cassandra the data directory > size is almost 170GB. > > This means the **data got inflated**. > > Is it the case just with me or some else is also facing the inflation or > its the general behavior of Cassandra. > > I am using Cassandra 0.6.8. on Ubuntu 10.10 > > -- > Akshat Bakliwal > Search Information and Extraction Lab > IIIT-Hyderabad > 09963885762 > WebPage > <http://web.iiit.ac.in/%7Eakshat_b> >