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
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
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