[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-11911) CQLSSTableWriter should allow for unset fields

["Sylvain Lebresne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sylvain Lebresne updated CASSANDRA-11911:
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    Assignee: Alex Petrov

> CQLSSTableWriter should allow for unset fields
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-11911
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11911
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>         Environment: Cassandra 3.0.6
>            Reporter: Matt Kopit
>            Assignee: Alex Petrov
>              Labels: lhf
>
> If you are using CQLSSTableWriter to bulk load data into sstables the only way to handle fields without values is by setting them to NULL, which results in the generation of a tombstoned field in the resulting sstable. For a large dataset this can result in a large number of tombstones.
> CQLSSTableWriter is currently instantiated with a single INSERT statement, so it's not an option to modify the insert statement to specify different fields on a per-row basis.
> Here are three potential solutions to this problem:
> 1. Change the default behavior of how NULLs are handled so those fields are treated as UNSET and will never be written to the sstable.
> 2. Create a configuration option for CQLSSTableWriter that governs whether NULLs should be ignored.
> 3. Invent a new constant that represents an UNSET value which can be used in place of NULL.



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