[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-1657) support in-memory column families

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

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Ryan King commented on CASSANDRA-1657:
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For narrow SSTables, shouldn't the row cache be enough for this?

> support in-memory column families
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-1657
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1657
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Peter Schuller
>            Priority: Minor
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> Some workloads are such that you absolutely depend on column families being in-memory for performance, yet you most definitely want all the things that Cassandra offers in terms of replication, consistency, durability etc.
> In order to semi-deterministically ensure acceptable performance for such data, Cassandra could support in-memory column families. Such an in-memory column family would imply that mlock() be used on sstables for this column family. On start-up and on compaction completion, they could be mmap():ed with MAP_POPULATE (Linux specific) or else just mmap():ed + mlock():ed in such a way as to otherwise guarantee it is in-memory (such as userland traversal of the entire file).

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