there is a limit of thrift message ( thrift_max_message_length_in_mb), by default it is 64m if I'm not mistaken. This is your limit.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:03 PM, hajjat <haj...@purdue.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a recommended data size for Reads/Writes in Cassandra? I tried > inserting 10 MB objects and the latency I got was pretty high. Also, I was > never able to insert larger objects (say 50 MB) since Cassandra kept > crashing when I tried that. > > Here is my experiment setup: > I used two Large VMs in EC2 within the same data-center. Inserts have ALL > consistency (strong consistency). The latencies were as follows: > Data size: 10 MB 1 MB 100 Bytes > Latency: 250ms 50ms 8ms > > I've also done the same for two Large VMs across two data-centers. The > latencies were around: > Data size: 10 MB 1 MB 100 Bytes > Latency: 1200ms 800ms 80ms > > 1) Ain't the 10 MB latency extremely high? > 2) Is there a recommended data size to use with Cassandra (e.g., a few > bytes > up to 1 MB)? > 3) Also, I tried inserting 50 MB data but Cassandra kept crashing. Does > anybody know why? I thought the max data size should be up to 2 GB? > > Thanks, > Mohammad > > PS. Here is my python code I use to insert into Cassandra. I put my > stopwatch timers around the insert statement: > fh = open(TEST_FILE,'r') > data = str(fh.read()) > > POOL = ConnectionPool(keyspace, server_list=['localhost:9160'], > timeout=None) > USER = ColumnFamily(POOL, 'User') > USER.insert('Ali', {'data': > > data},write_consistency_level=pycassa.cassandra.ttypes.ConsistencyLevel.ALL) > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Recommended-data-size-for-Reads-Writes-in-Cassandra-tp7589141.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >