On Mar 31, 2014 12:38 PM, "Wayne Schroeder" <wschroe...@pinsightmedia.com> wrote:
> I found a lot of documentation about the read path for key and row caches, > but I haven't found anything in regard to the write path. My app has the > need to record a large quantity of very short lived temporal data that will > expire within seconds and only have a small percentage of the rows accessed > before they expire. Ideally, and I have done the math, I would like the > data to never hit disk and just stay in memory once written until it > expires. How might I accomplish this? I am not concerned about data > consistency at all on this so if I could even avoid the commit log, that > would be even better. > > My main concern is that I don't see any evidence that writes end up in the > cache--that it takes at least one read to get it into the cache. I also > realize that, assuming I don't cause SSTable writes due to sheer quantity, > that the data would be in memory anyway. > > Has anyone done anything similar to this that could provide direction? > > Wayne > >