Check out http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-performance-io-with.html
Netflix used Cassandra with SSDs and were able to drop their memcache layer. Mind you they were not using it purely as an in memory KV store. Ben Instaclustr | www.instaclustr.com | @instaclustr On 05/03/2013, at 4:33 PM, Drew Kutcharian <d...@venarc.com> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm thinking about using Cassandra as an in-memory key/value store instead of > memcached for a new project (just to get rid of a dependency if possible). I > was thinking about setting the replication factor to 1, enabling off-heap > row-cache and setting gc_grace_period to zero for the CF that will be used > for the key/value store. > > Has anyone tried this? Any comments? > > Thanks, > > Drew > >
