On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Wayne Schroeder < wschroe...@pinsightmedia.com> wrote:
> Are there hidden costs to LWT (paxos) that are not represented in the > total time and number of operations? For example, are there some > under-the-hood locks that could cause contention issues when processing > significant quantities of LWT under load? > "Transactions" are not the sweet spot of a distributed log structured database with immutable datafiles, LWT comes at a significant cost compared to other operations in Cassandra. Put another way, lunch is still not free. :D =Rob
