Sometimes this is true, sometimes not…..….We have a use case where we have an admin tool where we choose to do this denorm for ACL on permission checks to make permission checks extremely fast. That said, we have one issue with one object that too many children(30,000) so when someone gives a user access to this one object with 30,000 children, we end up with a bad 60 second wait and users ended up getting frustrated and trying to cancel(our plan since admin activity hardly ever happens is to do it on our background thread and just return immediately to the user and tell him his changes will take affect in 1 minute ). After all, admin changes are infrequent anyways. This example demonstrates how sometimes it could almost burn you.
I guess my real point is it really depends on your use cases ;). In a lot of cases denorm can work but in some cases it burns you so you have to balance it all. In 90% of our cases our denorm is working great and for this one case, we need to background the permission change as we still LOVE the performance of our ACL checks. Ps. 30,000 writes in cassandra is not cheap when done from one server ;) but in general parallized writes is very fast for like 500. Later, Dean From: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com<mailto:edlinuxg...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:50 PM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Denormalization One technique is on the client side you build a tool that takes the even and produces N mutations. In c* writes are cheap so essentially, re-write everything on all changes. On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Fredrik Stigbäck <fredrik.l.stigb...@sitevision.se<mailto:fredrik.l.stigb...@sitevision.se>> wrote: Hi. Since denormalized data is first-class citizen in Cassandra, how to handle updating denormalized data. E.g. If we have a USER cf with name, email etc. and denormalize user data into many other CF:s and then update the information about a user (name, email...). What is the best way to handle updating those user data properties which might be spread out over many cf:s and many rows? Regards /Fredrik
