What’s new in Cassandra 1.0: Compression
From the post:
Cassandra 1.0 introduces support for data compression on a per-ColumnFamily basis, one of the most-requested features since the project started. Compression maximizes the storage capacity of your Cassandra nodes by reducing the volume of data on disk. In addition to the space-saving benefits, compression also reduces disk I/O, particularly for read-dominated workloads.
OK, maybe someone can help me here.
Cassandra, an Apache project, just released version 8.6. Here are the release notes for 8.6.
As a standards editor I understand being optimistic about what is “…going to appear…” in a future release but isn’t version 0.8.6 a little early to be treating features for 1.0 a bit early? (I don’t find “compression” mentioned in the cumulative release notes as of 0.8.6.)
May just be me.