Sequentially, and yes - for some definition of "directly" - but not just because it's sequential, but also because each sstable has cost in reading (e.g. JVM garbage created when you open/seek that has to be collected after the read)
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:27 AM Grzegorz Pietrusza <gpietru...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI all > > I can't find any information about how cassandra handles reads involving > multiple sstables. Are sstables read concurrently or sequentially? Is read > latency directly connected to the number of opened sstables? > > Regards > Grzegorz >