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

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jonathan Ellis reopened CASSANDRA-3:
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Avinash thinks he has a better solution involving a working OPHF.  This code has been reverted pending that.

> 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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