huggingface / huggingface/datasets
Cache only changed columns?
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Description
### Feature request
Cache only the actual changes to the dataset i.e. changed columns.
### Motivation
I realized that caching actually saves the complete dataset again.
This is especially problematic for image datasets if one wants to only change another column e.g. some metadata and then has to save 5 TB again.
### Your contribution
Is this even viable in the current architecture of the package?
I quickly looked into it and it seems it would require significant changes.
I would spend some time looking into this but maybe somebody could help with the feasibility and some plan to implement before spending too much time on it?
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