My 0.8 production cluster contains around 150 CFs spread across 5 keyspaces. Haven't found that to be an issue (yet?). Some of them are huge (dozens of GB), some are tiny (some MB).
Cheers 2012/1/5 aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> > Sort of. Depends. > > In Cassandra automatic memory management means the server can support more > CF's and it has apparently been tested to 100's or 1000's of CF's. Having > lots of CF's will impact performance by putting memory and IO under > pressure though. > > If you have 10's you should not have to worry too much. Best thing is to > test and post your findings. > > Hope that helps. > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 5/01/2012, at 11:49 AM, Michael Cetrulo wrote: > > in a traditional database it's not a good a idea to have hundreds of > tables but is it also bad to have hundreds of column families in cassandra? > thank you. > > >
