Re: Scaling a cassandra cluster with auto_bootstrap set to false

[Markus Klems]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> CL.ONE requests for rows which do not exist are very fast.
>
> http://adrianotto.com/2010/08/dev-null-unlimited-scale/
>

Yep, /dev/null is a might force ;-)

I took a look at the YCSB source code and spotted the line of code
that caused our confusion: it's in file
https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/blob/master/core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/workloads/CoreWorkload.java
in the "public boolean doTransaction(DB db, Object threadstate)"
method in line 497. No matter what the result of a YCSB transaction
operation is, the method always returns "true". Not sure if this is a
desirable behavior of a benchmarking tool. It makes it difficult to
spot these kind of mistakes.

The problem can also be observed by running this piece of code:

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    CassandraClient10 cli = new CassandraClient10();

    Properties props = new Properties();

    props.setProperty("hosts", args[0]);
    cli.setProperties(props);

    try
    {
      cli.init();
    } catch (Exception e)
    {
      e.printStackTrace();
      System.exit(0);
    }

    HashMap<String, ByteIterator> vals = new HashMap<String, ByteIterator>();
    vals.put("age", new StringByteIterator("57"));
    vals.put("middlename", new StringByteIterator("bradley"));
    vals.put("favoritecolor", new StringByteIterator("blue"));
    int res = cli.insert("usertable", "BrianFrankCooper", vals);
    System.out.println("Result of insert: " + res);

    HashMap<String, ByteIterator> result = new HashMap<String, ByteIterator>();
    HashSet<String> fields = new HashSet<String>();
    fields.add("middlename");
    fields.add("age");
    fields.add("favoritecolor");
    res = cli.read("usertable", "BrianFrankCooper", null, result);
    System.out.println("Result of read: " + res);
    for (String s : result.keySet())
    {
      System.out.println("[" + s + "]=[" + result.get(s) + "]");
    }

    res = cli.delete("usertable", "BrianFrankCooper");
    System.out.println("Result of delete: " + res);

    res = cli.read("usertable", "BrianFrankCooper", null, result);
    System.out.println("Result of read: " + res);
    for (String s : result.keySet())
    {
      System.out.println("[" + s + "]=[" + result.get(s) + "]");
    }
  }

which results in:

Result of insert: 0
Result of read: 0
[middlename]=[bradley]
[favoritecolor]=[blue]
[age]=[57]
Result of delete: 0
Result of read: 0
[middlename]=[]
[favoritecolor]=[]
[age]=[]

The second read should not return "true" ("0").

@Robert & Edward, thanks for your help,

-Markus