> If I have a data in column of size 500KB, 
> 
Also some information here 
http://thelastpickle.com/2011/04/28/Forces-of-Write-and-Read/

The data files are memory mapped so it's sort of OS dependant. 

A

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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Consultant
New Zealand

@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 21/06/2013, at 8:29 AM, Shahab Yunus <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok. Though the closest that I can find is this (Aaron Morton's great blog):
> http://thelastpickle.com/2011/07/04/Cassandra-Query-Plans/
> 
> I would also like to know the answer as, as such, I also haven't came across 
> 'block size' as a core concept (or a concept to be considered while 
> developing with) Cassandra unlike Hadoop.
> 
> Regards,
> Shahab
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Kanwar Sangha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes. Is that not specific to hadoop with CFS ? I want to know that If I have 
> a data in column of size 500KB, how many IOPS are needed to read that ? 
> (assuming we have key cache enabled)
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: Shahab Yunus [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 20 June 2013 14:32
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: block size
> 
>  
> 
> Have you seen this?
> 
> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-file-system-design
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> Shahab
> 
>  
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Kanwar Sangha <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi – What is the block size for Cassandra ? is it taken from the OS defaults ?
> 
>  
> 
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