Maybe. We haven't really tested it without buffering and probably won't anytime soon. 1 minute latency is good enough for what we're doing.
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 23, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Ryan King wrote: > >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks Ryan, >>> >>> could you please share more details: according to what you observed in >>> testing, why was performance worse if you do not do extra buffering? >>> >>> I was thinking (could be wrong) that without extra buffering, the >>> counter update goes to Memtable.putIfPresent() and >>> CounterColumn.resolve(), >>> which are still in-memory operations, and thus would not be so bad ? >> >> You're forgetting the commit log. > > Would https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2683 help with that? >
