Perhaps I should clarify my question. Is this possible / how might I accomplish this with cassandra?
Wayne On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com<mailto:rc...@eventbrite.com>> wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Wayne Schroeder <wschroe...@pinsightmedia.com<mailto:wschroe...@pinsightmedia.com>> wrote: I found a lot of documentation about the read path for key and row caches, but I haven't found anything in regard to the write path. My app has the need to record a large quantity of very short lived temporal data that will expire within seconds and only have a small percentage of the rows accessed before they expire. Ideally, and I have done the math, I would like the data to never hit disk and just stay in memory once written until it expires. How might I accomplish this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached =Rob