[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-3) Allow non-hash-based partitioning schemes to allow truly order-preserving storage

["Jun Rao (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jun Rao commented on CASSANDRA-3:
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Jonathan,

Do you imagine that one can implement some sort of range partitioning using your patch? The thing with range partitioning is that the partitioner has to keep some states. I am not sure how to enforce the partitioners on different nodes to maintain the same states. Do you require the patitioner to be stateless?


> Allow non-hash-based partitioning schemes to allow truly order-preserving storage
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-3
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>         Attachments: partition-1.patch, partition-2.patch, partition-3.patch, partition-4.patch, partition-5.patch, partition-6.patch
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> An order-preserving hash has too many limitations to be useful in production where key lengths tend to have low variance.  We need to make Cassandra more flexible and define a partitioner as responsible for String -> EndPoint instead of String -> BigInteger.

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