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  1. Apache Cassandra
  2. CASSANDRA-11206

Support large partitions on the 3.0 sstable format

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      Cassandra saves a sample of IndexInfo objects that store the offset within each partition of every 64KB (by default) range of rows. To find a row, we binary search this sample, then scan the partition of the appropriate range.

      The problem is that this scales poorly as partitions grow: on a cache miss, we deserialize the entire set of IndexInfo, which both creates a lot of GC overhead (as noted in CASSANDRA-9754) but is also non-negligible i/o activity (relative to reading a single 64KB row range) as partitions get truly large.

      We introduced an "offset map" in CASSANDRA-10314 that allows us to perform the IndexInfo bsearch while only deserializing IndexInfo that we need to compare against, i.e. log(N) deserializations.

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