The stress tool will work against any version of Cassandra, it's only released alongside for ease of deployment. You can safely use the tool from pre-release versions.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Clint Kelly <clint.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the update, Benedict. We are still using 2.0.9 > unfortunately. :/ I will keep that in mind for when we upgrade. > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith > <belliottsm...@datastax.com> wrote: > > The stress tool in 2.1 also now supports clustering columns: > > > http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/improved-cassandra-2-1-stress-tool-benchmark-any-schema > > > > There are however some features up for revision before release in order > to > > help generate realistic workloads. See > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7519 for details. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Clint Kelly <clint.ke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi Mikail, > >> > >> This plugin looks great! I have actually been using JMeter + a custom > >> REST endpoint driving Cassandra. It would be great to compare the > >> results I got from that against the pure JMeter + Cassandra (to > >> evaluate the REST endpoint's performance). > >> > >> Thanks! I'll check this out. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Clint > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Mikhail Stepura > >> <mikhail.step...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> > Are you interested in cassandra-stress in particular? Or in any tool > >> > which > >> > will allow you to stress test your schema? > >> > I believe Apache Jmeter + CQL plugin may be useful in the latter case. > >> > > >> > https://github.com/Mishail/CqlJmeter > >> > > >> > -M > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On 8/17/14 12:26, Clint Kelly wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi all, > >> >> > >> >> Is there a way to use the cassandra-stress tool with clustering > >> >> columns? > >> >> > >> >> I am trying to figure out whether an application that I'm running on > >> >> is slow because of my application logic, C* data model, or underlying > >> >> C* setup (e.g., I need more nodes or to tune some parameters). > >> >> > >> >> My application uses tables with several clustering columns and a > >> >> couple of additional indices and it is running quite slowly under a > >> >> heavy write load. I think that the problem is my data model (and > >> >> therefore table layout), but I'd like to confirm by replicating the > >> >> problem with cassandra-stress. > >> >> > >> >> I don't see any option for using clustering columns or secondary > >> >> indices, but I wanted to check before diving into the code and trying > >> >> to add this functionality. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks! > >> >> > >> >> Best regards, > >> >> Clint > >> >> > >> > > > > > >
