This is not expected, no. How random are your queries? If you have a couple outlier rows causing the false positives that are being queried over and over then that could just be the luck of the draw.
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Daniel Doubleday <daniel.double...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi people > > We are currently moving our second use case from mysql to cassandra. While > importing the data (ongoing) I noticed that the BloomFilterFalseRation seems > to be pretty high compared to another CF which is in used in production right > now. > > Its a hierarchical data model and I cannot avoid to do a read before > inserting multiple columns. > > I see a false positive ration of 0.28 while in my other CF it is 0.00025. > > The CF has 5 live sstables whiel I read that ratio. At that time I inserted ~ > 200k rows with a total of 1M cols. Row keys are pretty large unfortunately > (key.length() ~ 60) > > Just wanted to check if this value is to be expected. > > > > Thanks, > Daniel -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com