> optimize the Cassandra for performance in general It's a lot easier to answer specific questions. Cassandra is fast, and there are way to make it faster in specific use cases.
> improve the performance for "select * from X" type of queries Ah. Are you specifying a row key or are you trying to get multiple rows ? Getting the columns from the start of row is the most efficient query, see my presentation here http://www.datastax.com/events/cassandrasummit2012/presentations Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 14/08/2012, at 4:56 PM, A Geek <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > I'm a bit new to Cassandra and was wondering what are the basic steps that we > must follow to optimize the Cassandra for performance in general and how to > improve the performance for "select * from X" type of queries. Any help would > be much appreciated. > Note that, we have huge data sitting in our schema. > > Thanks, > DK
