So I decided that it would be beneficial to use batching in my application since I am doing many, many inserts. When I implemented batching in CQL using 'BEGIN BATCH'..'APPLY BATCH' I saw a significant decrease in the speed of inserts, no matter the number of insert statements I included between begin and apply. I created a simple benchmark script in Python and posted the results here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoNsUtyQ2cAodGpxLV9MODNJV3BFMzBicUhnUjM2M0E As you can see, the larger I made the batches, the longer they took. Any ideas where to go from here? Thanks, Blake
