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Posted to user@cassandra.apache.org by "Hiller, Dean" <De...@nrel.gov> on 2013/02/15 21:35:59 UTC

can we pull rows out compressed from cassandra(lots of rows)?

Thanks,
Dean

Re: can we pull rows out compressed from cassandra(lots of rows)?

Posted by aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>.

No. 
The rows are uncompressed deep down in the IO stack. 

There is compression in the binary protocol http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/binary-protocol 
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/native_protocol.spec;hb=refs/heads/cassandra-1.2

Cheers

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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
New Zealand

@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 16/02/2013, at 9:35 AM, "Hiller, Dean" <De...@nrel.gov> wrote:

> 
> Thanks,
> Dean