1.) Am I correct in saying that if I define a CassandraCqlMapState with a parallelism of N, then N different instances of the Session object will be created? If this is correct, does this not go against what is recommended by DataStax: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/4-simple-rules-when-using-the-datastax-drivers-for-cassandra where they say that a single Session object should be used across the application? Or does that not make sense in the storm context where the state could be distributed across different physical nodes? 2.) For all queries, CassandraCqlStateMap prepares a BatchStatement to submit to Cassandra. Is this guaranteed to have better performance than executing the individual statements asynchronously? Ref: https://lostechies.com/ryansvihla/2014/08/28/cassandra-batch-loading-without-the-batch-keyword/. ThanksGireesh
