A lot of churn is hard on Cassandra because of http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes, but Cassandra is so fast that it may make up for that depending on your needs.
It's not designed to eliminate i/o entirely, no. But if you set RowsCached=100% in 0.6 you'll get something pretty close to that. (That is a better approach than huge Memtables.) -Jonathan On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Bill Au <bill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running on a machine with 16 GB of memory. I am thinking that the > bigger MemtableSizeIbMB, the more data will be kept in memory so there will > be less disk I/O. Can I eliminate disk I/O all together if all my data fits > inside Memtable? My application is constantly inserting new data and remove > old ones. Will keeping everything in Memtable generate so much garbage > collection activity that it would impact performance? > Bill > >
