Ah yes, thanks! I had forgotten about the use of batches for this purpose.
Appreciate the help, cheers! Best regards, Clint On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:24 PM, DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Is there a recommended way to perform lots of INSERT operations in a row > when using the DataStax Java driver?" --> Yes, use UNLOGGED batches. More > info here: > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/webhelp/index.html#cql/cql_reference/batch_r.html > > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Clint Kelly <clint.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> Is there a recommended way to perform lots of INSERT operations in a >> row when using the DataStax Java driver? >> >> I notice that the RecordWriter for the CQL3 Hadoop implementation in >> Cassandra does some per-data-node buffering of CQL3 queries. The >> DataStax Java driver, on the other hand, supports asynchronous query >> execution. >> >> In a situation in which we are doing lots of and lots of writes (like >> a RecordWriter for Hadoop), do we need to do any buffering or can we >> just fire away session.executeAsync(...) calls as soon as they are >> ready? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Best regards, >> Clint > >