[CASSANDRA-1867] sstable2json runs out of memory when trying to export huge rows

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.9, 0.7.0 rc 3
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Assignee: Ilya Maykov
• Reporter: Ilya Maykov

Authors

Ilya Maykov

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 16/Dec/10 03:05
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 17/Dec/10 15:23

Description

Currently, sstable2json can run out of memory if it encounters a huge row. The problem is that it creates an in-memory String for each row. Proposed solution is to pass the output PrintStream to the serializeRow() and serializeColumns() methods and write to the stream incrementally.