I would expect C++ or Java to be substantially faster than Python. However, I note that Hector (and I believe Pelops) don't yet use the newest, fastest Thrift library.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Wayne <wav...@gmail.com> wrote: > The changes seems to do the trick. We are down to about 1/2 of the original > quorum read performance. I did not see any more errors. > > More than 3 seconds on the client side is still not acceptable to us. We > need the data in Python, but would we be better off going through Java or > something else to increase performance? All three seconds are taken up in > Thrift itself (fastbinary.decode_binary(self, iprot.trans, (self.__class__, > self.thrift_spec))) so I am not sure what other options we have. > > Thanks for your help. > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com