http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureInternals
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > When data has to be read from file (immutable sstable), where in the > codebase/logic does it go about searching for the location of the key? > > Once it has found the key, is the exact location in terms of its location on > disk stored in a index for future lookups? > > When data is stored on disk, is it just a serialized version of the CF > object? And then it streams this data to the calling client? >