[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-4175) Reduce memory, disk space, and cpu usage with a column name/id map

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

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Benedict commented on CASSANDRA-4175:
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See also CASSANDRA-6917 - IMO the best solution to this problem is an enum data type, and then to convert all column names to that type.

> Reduce memory, disk space, and cpu usage with a column name/id map
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4175
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4175
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Jason Brown
>              Labels: performance
>             Fix For: 3.0
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> We spend a lot of memory on column names, both transiently (during reads) and more permanently (in the row cache).  Compression mitigates this on disk but not on the heap.
> The overhead is significant for typical small column values, e.g., ints.
> Even though we intern once we get to the memtable, this affects writes too via very high allocation rates in the young generation, hence more GC activity.
> Now that CQL3 provides us some guarantees that column names must be defined before they are inserted, we could create a map of (say) 32-bit int column id, to names, and use that internally right up until we return a resultset to the client.



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