Yeah, I believe that Yan has a type in his post. A CF is no read in one go, a row is. As for the scalability of having all the columns being read at once, I do not believe that it was ever meant to be. All the columns in a row are stored together, on the same set of machines. This means that if you have very large rows, you can have an unbalanced cluster, but it also allows reads of several columns out of a row to be more efficient since they are all together on the same machine (no need to gather results from several machines) and should read quickly since they are all together on disk.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Danforth" <idanfo...@numenta.com> To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 4:35:33 PM Subject: Re: Replicate On Write behavior I'm not sure I understand the scalability of this approach. A given column family can be HUGE with millions of rows and columns. In my cluster I have a single column family that accounts for 90GB of load on each node. Not only that but column family is distributed over the entire ring. Clearly I'm misunderstanding something. Ian On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: > when Cassandra reads, the entire CF is always read together, only at the > hand-over to client does the pruning happens > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, David Hawthorne <dha...@gmx.3crowd.com> > wrote: >> >> I'm curious... digging through the source, it looks like replicate on >> write triggers a read of the entire row, and not just the >> columns/supercolumns that are affected by the counter update. Is this the >> case? It would certainly explain why my inserts/sec decay over time and why >> the average insert latency increases over time. The strange thing is that >> I'm not seeing disk read IO increase over that same period, but that might >> be due to the OS buffer cache... >> >> On another note, on a 5-node cluster, I'm only seeing 3 nodes with >> ReplicateOnWrite Completed tasks in nodetool tpstats output. Is that >> normal? I'm using RandomPartitioner... >> >> Address DC Rack Status State Load >> Owns Token >> >> 136112946768375385385349842972707284580 >> 10.0.0.57 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 2.26 GB 20.00% >> 0 >> 10.0.0.56 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 2.47 GB 20.00% >> 34028236692093846346337460743176821145 >> 10.0.0.55 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 2.52 GB 20.00% >> 68056473384187692692674921486353642290 >> 10.0.0.54 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 950.97 MB 20.00% >> 102084710076281539039012382229530463435 >> 10.0.0.72 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 383.25 MB 20.00% >> 136112946768375385385349842972707284580 >> >> The nodes with ReplicateOnWrites are the 3 in the middle. The first node >> and last node both have a count of 0. This is a clean cluster, and I've >> been doing 3k ... 2.5k (decaying performance) inserts/sec for the last 12 >> hours. The last time this test ran, it went all the way down to 500 >> inserts/sec before I killed it. >
