[jjirsa]

As a long time Cassandra user: people use sstable2json all the time, but most people don't have 100gb sstables (or 20gb sstables that make 100gb of json)

Certainly something we can do better - how would you break it up? Adding a key to dump an individual partition to json?

[Boxxed]

It wasn't that large a database if I remember -- maybe 1TB? The sstable sizes seemed reasonable at the time, I think it was just explosion due to json.

Anywhoo, one huge file is fine, what's not fine is having one huge json object -- streaming parsers might be ubiquitous in the XML world, but definitely not in json land. Something simple like small json documents separated by newlines would work.

[jjirsa]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13848 Created just for you

[Boxxed]

What a guy slash gal; cool!