This webinar I did a few months ago goes through the read and write path http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCjekgK7ZY
I get to that about 29 minutes in. slides http://www.slideshare.net/aaronmorton/cassandra-community-webinar-introduction-to-apache-cassandra-12-20353118 Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 18/07/2013, at 9:56 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:53 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > So is there an index of key's to sstables, and there can be 1 or more > sstables per key? > > There are bloom filters, which answer the question "is my row key definitely > not in this SSTable"? > > There is also the Key Cache, which is a list of SSTables a given row key is > known to be in, and at what offset. > > =Rob
