Hi Jeff, Writing serially over one connection will be slower. If you run many threads hitting the server at once you will see throughput improve.
Jake On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:08 AM, Jeff Williams <je...@wherethebitsroam.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking at cassandra for a logging application. We currently log to a > Postgresql database. > > I set up 2 cassandra servers for testing. I did a benchmark where I had 100 > hashes representing logs entries, read from a json file. I then looped over > these to do 10,000 log inserts. I repeated the same writing to a postgresql > instance on one of the cassandra servers. The script is attached. The > cassandra writes appear to perform a lot worse. Is this expected? > > jeff@transcoder01:~$ ruby cassandra-bm.rb > cassandra > 3.170000 0.480000 3.650000 ( 12.032212) > jeff@transcoder01:~$ ruby cassandra-bm.rb > postgres > 2.140000 0.330000 2.470000 ( 7.002601) > > Regards, > Jeff > > <cassandra-bm.rb>
