Thanks Ben, that article was actually the reason I started thinking about removing memcached.
I wanted to see what would be the optimum config to use C* as an in-memory store. -- Drew On Mar 5, 2013, at 2:39 AM, Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > Check out > http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-performance-io-with.html > > Netflix used Cassandra with SSDs and were able to drop their memcache layer. > Mind you they were not using it purely as an in memory KV store. > > Ben > Instaclustr | www.instaclustr.com | @instaclustr > > > > On 05/03/2013, at 4:33 PM, Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> I'm thinking about using Cassandra as an in-memory key/value store instead >> of memcached for a new project (just to get rid of a dependency if >> possible). I was thinking about setting the replication factor to 1, >> enabling off-heap row-cache and setting gc_grace_period to zero for the CF >> that will be used for the key/value store. >> >> Has anyone tried this? Any comments? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Drew >> >> >
