Javier Canillas wrote: > > > On the other hand, if your application will use heavily cassandra i > recommend making a calcularon of the data volumen that will handle and > using a partition that is actually 3 to 5 times bigger. Doing so you > will be able to play around with compactation strategy to avoid > latency when your application is under heavy load. > >
Can you please explain with an example? I just started reading about Cassandra, all I know is that Cassandra partitions based on the hash space and divides equally among all the nodes. The tokens (keys) are then distributed equally accross N replica nodes. -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Indexes-and-hard-disk-tp6018234p6019297.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.