[CASSANDRA-13848] Allow sstabledump to do a json object per partition to better handle large sstables

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Labels: lhf
• Assignee: Kevin Wern
• Reporter: Jeff Jirsa

Authors

Kevin Wern

Reviewers

Jeff Jirsa

• Created: 07/Sep/17 04:30
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:04
• Resolved: 08/Dec/17 00:21

Description

sstable2json / sstabledump make a huge json document of the whole file. For very large sstables this makes it impossible to load in memory to do anything with it. Allowing users to Break it into small json objects per partition would be useful.