Compressing client-side is better because it will save: 1) a lot of bandwidth on the network 2) a lot of Cassandra CPU because no decompression server-side 3) a lot of Cassandra HEAP because the compressed blob should be relatively small (text data compress very well) compared to the raw size
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Jeronimo de A. Barros < jeronimo.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We use a pseudo file-system table where the chunks are blobs of 64 KB and > we never had any performance issue. > > Primary-key structure is ((file-uuid), chunck-id). > > Jero > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:25 AM, shalom sagges <shalomsag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> A certain application is writing ~55,000 characters for a single row. >> Most of these characters are entered to one column with "text" data type. >> >> This looks insanely large for one row. >> Would you suggest to change the data type from "text" to BLOB or any >> other option that might fit this scenario? >> >> Thanks! >> > >
