Thanks Thomas for the clarification. If I use the Consistency level of QUORUM for Read and Write, the Latency would affect the Throughput right?
Thanks Ajay On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Job Thomas <j...@suntecgroup.com> wrote: > Hi, > > First of all,the write latency of cassandra is not high(Read is high). > > The high throughput is achieved through distributes read and write. > > Your doubt ( If Latency is more how come the Throughput is high ) is some > what right if you put high consistency to both read and write. > > You will get distributed abilities since it is not Master/Slave > architecture(Like HBase). > > If your consistency is lesser,then some nodes out of all replica nodes > are free and will be used for another read/write . [ Think you are using > multithreaded > application ] > > Thanks & Regards > Job M Thomas > Platform & Technology > Mob : 7560885748 > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ajay [mailto:ajay.ga...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Fri 12/26/2014 10:46 AM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Throughput Vs Latency > > Hi, > > I am new to No SQL (and Cassandra). As I am going through few articles on > Cassandra, it says Cassandra achieves highest throughput among various No > SQL solutions but at the cost of high read and write latency. I have a > basic question here - (If my understanding is right) Latency means the time > taken to accept input, process and respond back. If Latency is more how > come the Throughput is high? > > Thanks > Ajay >