By "partitions" I assume you refer to "partition keys".
Generally, the more partitions keys, the better. Having more partition keys
means your data generally is spread out more evenly across the cluster,
makes repairs run faster (or so I've heard), makes adding new nodes more
smooth, and makes it
It If you only have 100 partitions, then having more than (100 * RF) nodes
doesn’t help you much.
However, unless you’re using very specific partitioners, there’s no guarantee
that you’ll have 1 partition per node (with 10 nodes / 10 partitions).
Cassandra uses murmur3 hash (by default,
