"With OrderPreservingPartitioner the keys themselves are used to place on the ring. One of the potential drawbacks of this approach is that if rows are inserted with sequential keys, all the write load will go to the same node."
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration Wouldn't the "insertion point" tend to be replicated on more than one node in most configurations? Does every "insertion point" exist on a single "primary" machine or are writes load-balanced to ReplicationFactor nodes? I presume that writes can fail-over, so I cannot see why they could not be load balanced. === Also: Dominic Williams says that one of the advantages of the OrderPreservingPartitioner is: "3. If you screw up, you can scan over your data to recover/delete orphaned keys" Does anyone know off the top of their head what he might have meant by that? Paul
