Hello I try make little cluster of 2 cassandra (0.7.0) nodes and I make little test in php:
<?php define("LIBPATH", "lib/"); define("RECORDSSETCOUNT", 100); require_once("thrift/Thrift.php"); require_once("thrift/transport/TSocket.php"); require_once("thrift/transport/TFramedTransport.php"); require_once("thrift/protocol/TBinaryProtocol.php"); require_once(LIBPATH."cassandra/Cassandra.php"); require_once(LIBPATH."cassandra/cassandra_types.php"); //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- $transport = new TFramedTransport(new TSocket("10.24.84.4", 9160)); $protocol = new TBinaryProtocolAccelerated($transport); $client = new CassandraClient($protocol); $transport->open(); $client->set_keyspace("test"); //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- $l_row = array("qw" => "12", "as" => "67", "df" => "df", "id" => "uid", "uid" => "1212"); $l_begin = microtime(true); for($i=0; $i < 1000000; ++$i) { $l_columns = array(); foreach($l_row as $l_key => $l_value) { $l_columns[] = new cassandra_Column(array("name" => $l_key, "value" => $l_value, "timestamp" => time())); }; $l_supercolumn = new cassandra_SuperColumn(array("name" => $l_row["id"], "columns" => $l_columns)); $l_c_or_sc = new cassandra_ColumnOrSuperColumn(array("super_column" => $l_supercolumn)); $l_mutation = new cassandra_Mutation(array("column_or_supercolumn" => $l_c_or_sc)); $client->batch_mutate(array($l_row["uid"] => array('adsdfsdfsd' => array($l_mutation))), cassandra_ConsistencyLevel::ONE); if($i && !($i % 1000)) { print (microtime(true) - $l_begin)."\n"; $l_begin = microtime(true); }; }; print "done\n"; sleep(20); ?> When i run this test on the same machine that run cassandra daemon with ip(10.24.84.4) i got foolow results: 0.64255094528198 0.53704404830933 0.4430079460144 0.43299198150635 But when i switch test on the other cassandra daemon with ip(10.24.84.7), so test and cassandra daemon work on separates machines i got follow results: 2.4974539279938 2.3667190074921 2.2672221660614 2.3015670776367 2.2397489547729 So in my case performance degrade up to 5 times. Why this happens, and how can i solve this? Latency of my network is good, ping give: PING 10.24.84.7 (10.24.84.7) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.758 ms 64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.696 ms 64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.687 ms 64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.735 ms 64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.689 ms 64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.631 ms ^V64 bytes from 10.24.84.7: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.379 ms PS: my system is Linux 2.6.32-311-ec2 #23-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 11:14:35 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux