Re: Cassandra 4.0 upgrade - Upgradesstables

2022-08-16 Thread Jai Bheemsen Rao Dhanwada
Thank you On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:48 AM C. Scott Andreas wrote: > No downside at all for 3.x -> 4.x (however, Cassandra 3.x reading 2.1 > SSTables incurred a performance hit). > > Many users of Cassandra don't run upgradesstables after 3.x -> 4.x > upgrades at all. It's not necessary to run u

Re: Cassandra 4.0 upgrade - Upgradesstables

2022-08-16 Thread C. Scott Andreas
No downside at all for 3.x -> 4.x (however, Cassandra 3.x reading 2.1 SSTables incurred a performance hit).Many users of Cassandra don't run upgradesstables after 3.x -> 4.x upgrades at all. It's not necessary to run until a hypothetical future time if/when support for reading Cassandra 3.x SST

Re: Question about num_tokens

2022-08-16 Thread Jai Bheemsen Rao Dhanwada
Thanks for the response and details. I am just curious about the below statement mentioned in the doc. I am pretty confident that my clusters are going to grow to 100+ nodes (same DC or combining all DCs). I am just concerned that the doc says it is *not recommended for clusters over 50 nodes*. 16

cell vs row timestamp tie resolution

2022-08-16 Thread Andrey Zapariy
Hello Cassandra users! I'm dealing with the unexpected behavior of the tie resolution for the same timestamp inserts. At least, unexpected for me. The following simple repro under Cassandra 3.11.4 illustrates the question: CREATE KEYSPACE the_test WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy', 'r

Re: Cassandra 4.0 upgrade - Upgradesstables

2022-08-16 Thread Jai Bheemsen Rao Dhanwada
Thank you Erick, > it is going to be single-threaded by default so it will take a while to get through all the sstables on dense nodes Is there any downside if the upgradesstables take longer (example 1-2 days), other than I/O? Also when is the upgradesstable get triggered? after every node is up

Re: Cassandra 4.0 upgrade - Upgradesstables

2022-08-16 Thread Erick Ramirez
As convenient as it is, there are a few caveats and it isn't a silver bullet. The automatic feature will only kick in if there are no other compactions scheduled. Also, it is going to be single-threaded by default so it will take a while to get through all the sstables on dense nodes. In contrast,