[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-7362) Be able to selectively "mount" a snapshot of a table as a read-only version of that table

["Tupshin Harper (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tupshin Harper created CASSANDRA-7362:
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             Summary: Be able to selectively "mount" a snapshot of a table as a read-only version of that table
                 Key: CASSANDRA-7362
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7362
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Core, Tools
            Reporter: Tupshin Harper
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 3.0


When doing batch jobs (thinking hive and shark as prominent examples) or repeated analysis of the same data, it can be challenging to get a consistent result if the data is changing under your feet. Rather than the low level CASSSANDRA-2527, I propose that we add the capability to take a named snapshot  (exact uuid in 2.1 and later), and be able to activate and deactivate it as a regular sstable (e.g. myks.mytable snapshot could be activated as myks.mytable-longuuid). That table would be queryable just like any other, but would not be writable. Any attempt to insert or update would throw an exception. Because it would 



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