Wide rows and reads

2012-07-05 Thread Oleg Dulin
Here is my flow: One process write a really wide row (250K+ supercolumns, each one with 5 subcolumns, for the total of 1K or so per supercolumn) Second process comes in literally 2-3 seconds later and starts reading from it. My observation is that nothing good happens. It is ridiculously

Re: Wide rows and reads

2012-07-05 Thread Philip Shon
From what I understand, wide rows have quite a bit of overhead, especially if you are picking columns that are far apart from each other for a given row. This post by Aaron Morton was quite good at explaining this issue http://thelastpickle.com/2011/07/04/Cassandra-Query-Plans/ -Phil On Thu,