Cassandra uses thrift messages to pass data to and from server. A batch is just a convenient way to create such message. Nothing happens until you send this message. Probably, this is what you call "close the batch".
Thank you, Andrey On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Ben Hood <0x6e6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like my app to stream a large number of events into Cassandra that > originate from the same network input stream. If I create one batch > mutation, can I just keep appending events to the Cassandra batch until I'm > done, or are there some practical considerations about doing this (e.g. too > much stuff buffering up on the client or server side, visibility of the > data within the batch that hasn't been closed by the client yet)? Barring > any discussion about atomicity, if I were able to stream a largish source > into Cassandra, what would happen if the client crashed and didn't close > the batch? Or is this kind of thing just a normal occurrence that Cassandra > has to be aware of anyway? > > Cheers, > > Ben
