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The session will be written once at create time, and never modified
after that. Will that affect things?

Thank you

- -Phil

On 01.12.2014 15:58, Jonathan Haddad wrote:
> I don't think DateTiered will help here, since there's no
> clustering key defined.  This is a pretty straightforward workload,
> I've done something similar.
> 
> Are you overwriting the session on every request? Or just writing
> it once?
> 
> On Mon Dec 01 2014 at 6:45:14 AM Matt Brown <m...@mattnworb.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> This sounds like a good use case for 
>> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/datetieredcompactionstrategy
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 1, 2014, at 3:07 AM, Phil Wise
>> <p...@advancedtelematic.com> wrote:
>> 
>> We're considering switching from using Redis to Cassandra to
>> store short lived (~1 hour) session tokens, in order to reduce
>> the number of data storage engines we have to manage.
>> 
>> Can anyone foresee any problems with the following approach:
>> 
>> 1) Use the TTL functionality in Cassandra to remove old tokens.
>> 
>> 2) Store the tokens in a table like:
>> 
>> CREATE TABLE tokens ( id uuid, username text, // (other session
>> information) PRIMARY KEY (id) );
>> 
>> 3) Perform ~100 writes/sec like:
>> 
>> INSERT INTO tokens (id, username ) VALUES
>> (468e0d69-1ebe-4477-8565-00a4cb6fa9f2, 'bob') USING TTL 3600;
>> 
>> 4) Perform ~1000 reads/sec like:
>> 
>> SELECT * FROM tokens WHERE
>> ID=468e0d69-1ebe-4477-8565-00a4cb6fa9f2 ;
>> 
>> The tokens will be about 100 bytes each, and we will grant 100
>> per second on a small 3 node cluster. Therefore there will be
>> about 360k tokens alive at any time, with a total size of 36MB
>> before database overhead.
>> 
>> My biggest worry at the moment is that this kind of workload
>> will stress compaction in an unusual way.  Are there any metrics
>> I should keep an eye on to make sure it is working fine?
>> 
>> I read over the following links, but they mostly talk about
>> DELETE-ing and tombstones. Am I right in thinking that as soon as
>> a node performs a compaction then the rows with an expired TTL
>> will be thrown away, regardless of gc_grace_seconds?
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7534
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-anti-patterns-queues-and-queue-like-datasets
>>
>>
>> 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6654
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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