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Posted to commits@cassandra.apache.org by jb...@apache.org on 2012/04/24 20:12:37 UTC
[11/25] git commit: elaborate on why cache changes matter from
end-user perspective
elaborate on why cache changes matter from end-user perspective
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/commit/87c068e4
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/tree/87c068e4
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/diff/87c068e4
Branch: refs/heads/cassandra-1.1
Commit: 87c068e40bc33ddb356482ef8151738e97be8f84
Parents: 3a0cc8b
Author: Jonathan Ellis <jb...@apache.org>
Authored: Fri Apr 20 11:15:19 2012 -0500
Committer: Jonathan Ellis <jb...@apache.org>
Committed: Tue Apr 24 13:11:36 2012 -0500
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NEWS.txt | 12 +++++++-----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/blob/87c068e4/NEWS.txt
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diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index dc2c476..9032e13 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -80,12 +80,14 @@ Features
the cluster. This is useful for cases such as testing different
compaction strategies with live traffic without affecting the cluster.
- Key and row caches are now global, similar to the global memtable
- threshold.
- - Off-heap caches no longer require JNA.
+ threshold. Manual tuning of cache sizes per-columnfamily is no longer
+ required.
+ - Off-heap caches no longer require JNA, and will work out of the box
+ on Windows as well as Unix platforms.
- Streaming is now multithreaded.
- Compactions may now be aborted via JMX or nodetool.
- The stress tool is not new in 1.1, but it is newly included in
- binary builds as well as the source tree
+ binary builds now, as well as the source tree.
- Hadoop: a new BulkOutputFormat is included which will directly write
SSTables locally and then stream them into the cluster.
YOU SHOULD USE BulkOutputFormat BY DEFAULT. ColumnFamilyOutputFormat
@@ -94,10 +96,10 @@ Features
more efficient.
- Hadoop: KeyRange.filter is now supported with ColumnFamilyInputFormat,
allowing index expressions to be evaluated server-side to reduce
- the amount of data sent to Hadoop
+ the amount of data sent to Hadoop.
- Hadoop: ColumnFamilyRecordReader has a wide-row mode, enabled via
a boolean parameter to setInputColumnFamily, that pages through
- data column-at-a-time instead of row-at-a-time
+ data column-at-a-time instead of row-at-a-time.