The incoming mutations are written per column in a Memtable (an in memory cache) . The default size for this table is 64MB if I can recall correctly. For more information take a look here: https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds
Regards, Panagiotis On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Parag Patel <ppa...@clearpoolgroup.com>wrote: > >> <some questions about the commitlog and related assumptions> >> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6764 > > You might wish to get in contact with the reporter here, who has similar > questions! > > =Rob > >