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Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row

Posted by timothy on from the but-only-if-they're-really-thin dept.

angry tapir writes "The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to hold up to 2 billion columns per row. The newly installed Large Row Support feature of Cassandra version 0.7 allows the database to hold up to 2 billion columns per row. Previous versions had no set upper limit, though the maximum amount of material that could be held in a single row was approximately 2GB. This upper limit has been eliminated."

4 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Typical applications? by Brummund · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any application developed by one or more Visual Basic developers, given enough time.

  2. Re:Only 2 billion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You work for Gillette, don't you.

  3. Re:Typical applications? by jrumney · · Score: 5, Funny

    What sorta applications need so many columns?

    Facebook needs one column for every privacy violation.

  4. Cassandra by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict that bad things will come of this.

    Not that anyone will believe me.

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