Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Alexander Dejanovski]

Shalom,

you may have a high trace probability which could explain what you're
observing :
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/tools/toolsSetTraceProbability.html

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:37 PM Chris Lohfink  wrote:

> count(*) actually pages through all the data. So a select count(*) without
> a limit would be expected to cause a lot of load on the system. The hit is
> more than just IO load and CPU, it also creates a lot of garbage that can
> cause pauses slowing down the entire JVM. Some details here:
> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/counting-keys-in-cassandra
> 
>
> You may want to consider maintaining the count yourself, using Spark, or
> if you just want a ball park number you can grab it from JMX.
>
> > Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it
> actually has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving
> data from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).
>
> FWIW in 2.0 thats not completely accurate. Before 2.1 the process of
> memtable flushing acquired a switchlock on that blocks mutations during the
> flush (the "pending task" metric is the measure of how many mutations are
> blocked by this lock).
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Shalom Sagges 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> I'm referring to Writes Count generated from JMX:
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> The higher curve shows the total write count per second for all nodes in
> the cluster and the lower curve is the average write count per second per
> node.
> The drop in the end is the result of shutting down one application node
> that performed this kind of query (we still haven't removed the query
> itself in this cluster).
>
>
> On a different cluster, where we already removed the "select count(*)"
> query completely, we can see that the issue was resolved (also verified
> this with running nodetool cfstats a few times and checked the write count
> difference):
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
>
> Naturally I asked how can a select query affect the write count of a node
> but weird as it seems, the issue was resolved once the query was removed
> from the code.
>
> Another side note.. One of our developers that wrote the query in the
> code, thought it would be nice to limit the query results to 560,000,000.
> Perhaps the ridiculously high limit might have caused this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035
>  
>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Alexander Dejanovski <
> a...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Shalom,
>
> Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it actually
> has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving data
> from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).
>
> The Cassandra write path and read path are two different things and, as
> far as I know, I see no way for a select count(*) to increase your write
> count (if you are indeed talking about actual Cassandra writes, and not I/O
> operations).
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:21 PM Shalom Sagges 
> wrote:
>
> Yes, I know it's obsolete, but unfortunately this takes time.
> We're in the process of upgrading to 2.2.8 and 3.0.9 in our clusters.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035 <+972%2074-700-4035>
>  
>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Yudovin 
> wrote:
>
> As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check
> memory heap state with any JMX tool, e.g.
> https://github.com/patric-r/jvmtop
>
> By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version.
> Even in 2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:47:37 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
> Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
> nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035
> 
> 
> 
> We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 

Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Alexander Dejanovski]

Could you check the write count on a per table basis in order to check
which specific table is actually receiving writes ?
Check the OneMinuteRate metric in
org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ColumnFamily,keyspace=*keyspace1*,scope=
*standard1*,name=WriteLatency
(Make sure you replace keyspace and table name here).

Also, check if you have tracing turned on as it can indeed generate writes
for every query you send in the sessions and events table :
https://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.1/cql/cql_reference/tracing_r.html

Cheers,

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:11 PM Shalom Sagges 
wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> I'm referring to Writes Count generated from JMX:
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> The higher curve shows the total write count per second for all nodes in
> the cluster and the lower curve is the average write count per second per
> node.
> The drop in the end is the result of shutting down one application node
> that performed this kind of query (we still haven't removed the query
> itself in this cluster).
>
>
> On a different cluster, where we already removed the "select count(*)"
> query completely, we can see that the issue was resolved (also verified
> this with running nodetool cfstats a few times and checked the write count
> difference):
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
>
> Naturally I asked how can a select query affect the write count of a node
> but weird as it seems, the issue was resolved once the query was removed
> from the code.
>
> Another side note.. One of our developers that wrote the query in the
> code, thought it would be nice to limit the query results to 560,000,000.
> Perhaps the ridiculously high limit might have caused this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035 <+972%2074-700-4035>
>  
>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Alexander Dejanovski <
> a...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Shalom,
>
> Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it actually
> has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving data
> from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).
>
> The Cassandra write path and read path are two different things and, as
> far as I know, I see no way for a select count(*) to increase your write
> count (if you are indeed talking about actual Cassandra writes, and not I/O
> operations).
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:21 PM Shalom Sagges 
> wrote:
>
> Yes, I know it's obsolete, but unfortunately this takes time.
> We're in the process of upgrading to 2.2.8 and 3.0.9 in our clusters.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035 <+972%2074-700-4035>
>  
>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Yudovin 
> wrote:
>
> As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check
> memory heap state with any JMX tool, e.g.
> https://github.com/patric-r/jvmtop
>
> By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version.
> Even in 2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:47:37 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
> Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
> nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035
> 
> 
> 
> We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Yudovin 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.
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>
>
> Hi Shalom,
>
> so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT
> causes C* to flush tables to free memory.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> 

Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Chris Lohfink]

count(*) actually pages through all the data. So a select count(*) without
a limit would be expected to cause a lot of load on the system. The hit is
more than just IO load and CPU, it also creates a lot of garbage that can
cause pauses slowing down the entire JVM. Some details here:
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/counting-keys-in-cassandra


You may want to consider maintaining the count yourself, using Spark, or if
you just want a ball park number you can grab it from JMX.

> Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it actually
has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving data
from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).

FWIW in 2.0 thats not completely accurate. Before 2.1 the process of
memtable flushing acquired a switchlock on that blocks mutations during the
flush (the "pending task" metric is the measure of how many mutations are
blocked by this lock).

Chris

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Shalom Sagges 
wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> I'm referring to Writes Count generated from JMX:
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> The higher curve shows the total write count per second for all nodes in
> the cluster and the lower curve is the average write count per second per
> node.
> The drop in the end is the result of shutting down one application node
> that performed this kind of query (we still haven't removed the query
> itself in this cluster).
>
>
> On a different cluster, where we already removed the "select count(*)"
> query completely, we can see that the issue was resolved (also verified
> this with running nodetool cfstats a few times and checked the write count
> difference):
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
>
> Naturally I asked how can a select query affect the write count of a node
> but weird as it seems, the issue was resolved once the query was removed
> from the code.
>
> Another side note.. One of our developers that wrote the query in the
> code, thought it would be nice to limit the query results to 560,000,000.
> Perhaps the ridiculously high limit might have caused this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035
>  
>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Alexander Dejanovski <
> a...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shalom,
>>
>> Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it actually
>> has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving data
>> from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).
>>
>> The Cassandra write path and read path are two different things and, as
>> far as I know, I see no way for a select count(*) to increase your write
>> count (if you are indeed talking about actual Cassandra writes, and not I/O
>> operations).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:21 PM Shalom Sagges 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I know it's obsolete, but unfortunately this takes time.
>>> We're in the process of upgrading to 2.2.8 and 3.0.9 in our clusters.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shalom Sagges
>>> DBA
>>> T: +972-74-700-4035 <+972%2074-700-4035>
>>>  
>>>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Yudovin 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check
>>> memory heap state with any JMX tool, e.g. https://github.com/patric
>>> -r/jvmtop
>>>
>>> By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version.
>>> Even in 2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>>>
>>> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
>>> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:47:37 -0500*Shalom Sagges
>>> >* wrote 
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
>>> Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
>>> nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shalom Sagges
>>> DBA
>>> T: +972-74-700-4035
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We Create Meaningful Connections
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Yudovin >> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged 

Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Shalom Sagges]

Hi Alexander,

I'm referring to Writes Count generated from JMX:
[image: Inline image 1]

The higher curve shows the total write count per second for all nodes in
the cluster and the lower curve is the average write count per second per
node.
The drop in the end is the result of shutting down one application node
that performed this kind of query (we still haven't removed the query
itself in this cluster).


On a different cluster, where we already removed the "select count(*)"
query completely, we can see that the issue was resolved (also verified
this with running nodetool cfstats a few times and checked the write count
difference):
[image: Inline image 2]


Naturally I asked how can a select query affect the write count of a node
but weird as it seems, the issue was resolved once the query was removed
from the code.

Another side note.. One of our developers that wrote the query in the code,
thought it would be nice to limit the query results to 560,000,000. Perhaps
the ridiculously high limit might have caused this?

Thanks!



Shalom Sagges
DBA
T: +972-74-700-4035
 
 We Create Meaningful Connections



On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Alexander Dejanovski <
a...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:

> Hi Shalom,
>
> Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it actually
> has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving data
> from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).
>
> The Cassandra write path and read path are two different things and, as
> far as I know, I see no way for a select count(*) to increase your write
> count (if you are indeed talking about actual Cassandra writes, and not I/O
> operations).
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:21 PM Shalom Sagges 
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I know it's obsolete, but unfortunately this takes time.
>> We're in the process of upgrading to 2.2.8 and 3.0.9 in our clusters.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Shalom Sagges
>> DBA
>> T: +972-74-700-4035 <+972%2074-700-4035>
>>  
>>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Yudovin 
>> wrote:
>>
>> As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check
>> memory heap state with any JMX tool, e.g. https://github.com/
>> patric-r/jvmtop
>>
>> By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version.
>> Even in 2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.
>>
>> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>>
>> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
>> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:47:37 -0500*Shalom Sagges
>> >* wrote 
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
>> Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
>> nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Shalom Sagges
>> DBA
>> T: +972-74-700-4035
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We Create Meaningful Connections
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Yudovin 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.
>> If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this on behalf of
>> the addressee you must not use, copy, disclose or take action based on this
>> message or any information herein.
>> If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender
>> immediately by reply email and delete this message. Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Hi Shalom,
>>
>> so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT
>> causes C* to flush tables to free memory.
>>
>> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>>
>> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
>> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:36:59 -0500*Shalom Sagges
>> >* wrote 
>>
>> Hi There!
>>
>> I'm using C* 2.0.14.
>> I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute
>> on a table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely
>> be avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150
>> thousand writes per second for that particular table.
>>
>> Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly
>> increase write count in Cassandra?
>>
>> Thanks!

Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Alexander Dejanovski]

Hi Shalom,

Cassandra writes (mutations) are INSERTs, UPDATEs or DELETEs, it actually
has nothing to do with flushes. A flush is the operation of moving data
from memory (memtable) to disk (SSTable).

The Cassandra write path and read path are two different things and, as far
as I know, I see no way for a select count(*) to increase your write count
(if you are indeed talking about actual Cassandra writes, and not I/O
operations).

Cheers,

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:21 PM Shalom Sagges 
wrote:

> Yes, I know it's obsolete, but unfortunately this takes time.
> We're in the process of upgrading to 2.2.8 and 3.0.9 in our clusters.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035 <+972%2074-700-4035>
>  
>  We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Yudovin 
> wrote:
>
> As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check
> memory heap state with any JMX tool, e.g.
> https://github.com/patric-r/jvmtop
>
> By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version.
> Even in 2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:47:37 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
> Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
> nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035
> 
> 
> 
> We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Yudovin 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.
> If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this on behalf of
> the addressee you must not use, copy, disclose or take action based on this
> message or any information herein.
> If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender
> immediately by reply email and delete this message. Thank you.
>
>
> Hi Shalom,
>
> so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT
> causes C* to flush tables to free memory.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:36:59 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Hi There!
>
> I'm using C* 2.0.14.
> I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute
> on a table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely
> be avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150
> thousand writes per second for that particular table.
>
> Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly
> increase write count in Cassandra?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
>
> 
> 
> 
> We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
>
> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.
> If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this on behalf of
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>
>
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Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Shalom Sagges]

Yes, I know it's obsolete, but unfortunately this takes time.
We're in the process of upgrading to 2.2.8 and 3.0.9 in our clusters.

Thanks!



Shalom Sagges
DBA
T: +972-74-700-4035
 
 We Create Meaningful Connections



On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Yudovin 
wrote:

> As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check
> memory heap state with any JMX tool, e.g. https://github.com/
> patric-r/jvmtop
>
> By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version.
> Even in 2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:47:37 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
> Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
> nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
> DBA
> T: +972-74-700-4035
> 
> 
> 
> We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Yudovin 
> wrote:
>
>
>
> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.
> If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this on behalf of
> the addressee you must not use, copy, disclose or take action based on this
> message or any information herein.
> If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender
> immediately by reply email and delete this message. Thank you.
>
>
> Hi Shalom,
>
> so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT
> causes C* to flush tables to free memory.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:36:59 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Hi There!
>
> I'm using C* 2.0.14.
> I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute
> on a table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely
> be avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150
> thousand writes per second for that particular table.
>
> Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly
> increase write count in Cassandra?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
>
> 
> 
> 
> We Create Meaningful Connections
>
> 
>
>
>
> This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.
> If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this on behalf of
> the addressee you must not use, copy, disclose or take action based on this
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>
>
>
>

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Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Vladimir Yudovin]

As I said I'm not sure about it, but it will be interesting to check memory 
heap state with any JMX tool, e.g. https://github.com/patric-r/jvmtop



By a way, why Cassandra 2.0.14? It's quit old and unsupported version. Even in 
2.0 branch there is 2.0.17 available.


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Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir. 

Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12 nodes 
DC) are caused by memory flushes?










 


 
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Hi Shalom,



so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT causes C* 
to flush tables to free memory. 



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 On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:36:59 -0500Shalom Sagges 
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Hi There!



I'm using C* 2.0.14. 

I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute on a 
table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely be 
avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150 thousand 
writes per second for that particular table.



Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly 
increase write count in Cassandra?



Thanks!




 
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Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Shalom Sagges]

Thanks for the quick reply Vladimir.
Is it really possible that ~12,500 writes per second (per node in a 12
nodes DC) are caused by memory flushes?





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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vladimir Yudovin 
wrote:

> Hi Shalom,
>
> so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT
> causes C* to flush tables to free memory.
>
> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin,
>
> *Winguzone  - Hosted Cloud
> CassandraLaunch your cluster in minutes.*
>
>
>  On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:36:59 -0500*Shalom Sagges
> >* wrote 
>
> Hi There!
>
> I'm using C* 2.0.14.
> I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute
> on a table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely
> be avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150
> thousand writes per second for that particular table.
>
> Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly
> increase write count in Cassandra?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Shalom Sagges
>
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

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Hi Shalom,



so not sure, but probably excessive memory consumption by this SELECT causes C* 
to flush tables to free memory. 


Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin, 

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 On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 03:36:59 -0500Shalom Sagges 
shal...@liveperson.com wrote 




Hi There!



I'm using C* 2.0.14. 

I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute on a 
table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely be 
avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150 thousand 
writes per second for that particular table.



Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly 
increase write count in Cassandra?



Thanks!

 


 
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Can a Select Count(*) Affect Writes in Cassandra?

[Shalom Sagges]

Hi There!

I'm using C* 2.0.14.
I experienced a scenario where a "select count(*)" that ran every minute on
a table with practically no results limit (yes, this should definitely be
avoided), caused a huge increase in Cassandra writes to around 150 thousand
writes per second for that particular table.

Can anyone explain this behavior? Why would a Select query significantly
increase write count in Cassandra?

Thanks!

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