You are of course right. There is no solution and no language that is a perfect match for every situation and every solution and language has it's own pros, cons, pitfalls and drawbacks. Actually that article you posted points at some aspect of ARC, I wasn't aware of, yet. Nevertheless, GC is an issue for Cassandra, otherwise this thread would not exist, right? But we have to deal with it and get the best out of it.
Another option, besides optimizing your GC: You could check if http://www.scylladb.com/ is an option for you. They rewrote CS from the scratch. The goal is to be completely compatible with CS but to be much, much faster. Check their benchmarks and their architecture. I really do not want do depreciate the work of all the Cassandra Developers - they did a great job - but what I have seen there looked very interesting and promising! By the way it's written in C++. 2016-11-27 7:06 GMT+01:00 Kant Kodali <k...@peernova.com>: > Automatic Reference counting sounds like college level idea that we all > have been hearing for since GC is born! There seem to be bunch of cons of > ARC as explained here > > https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Apple-Swift-adopt-the- > memory-management-method-of-garbage-collection-like-in-Java > > Maintaining C and C++ APPS are never a pain? How about versioning and > static time libraries? There is work there too. so its all pros and cons > > "gc is a pain in the ass". How about seg faults? they aren't any lesser > pain :) > > Not only Cassandra that runs on JVM. Majority of Apache projects do run on > JVM for a reason. > > Bottom line. My point here is there are pros and cons of every language. > It doesn't make much sense to target one language. > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Benjamin Roth <benjamin.r...@jaumo.com> > wrote: > >> Arc means Automatic Reference counting which is done at compilen time. Eg >> Objektive c and Swift use this technique. There are absolutely No gc's. Its >> a completely different memory Management technique. >> >> Why i dont like Java on Server side? Because gc is a pain in the ass. I >> am doing this Business since over 15 years and running/maintaining Apps >> that are build in c or c++ has never been such a pain. >> >> On the other Hand Java is easier to handle for Developers. And coding >> plain c is also a pain. >> >> Thats why i Said its a philosophic discussion. >> Anyway Cassandra rund on Java so We have to Deal with it. >> >> Am 27.11.2016 05:28 schrieb "Kant Kodali" <k...@peernova.com>: >> >>> Benjamin Roth: How do you know Arc eliminates GC pauses completely? By >>> completely I mean no GC pauses whatsoever. >>> >>> When you say Java is NOT the First choice for Server Applications you >>> are generalizing it too much I would say since many of them fall under that >>> category. Either way the statement you made is purely subjective. >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Benjamin Roth <benjamin.r...@jaumo.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Lol. The counter proof is to use another memory Model like Arc. Thats >>>> why i personally think Java is NOT the First choice for Server >>>> Applications. But thats a philosophic discussion. >>>> >>>> Am 25.11.2016 23:38 schrieb "Kant Kodali" <k...@peernova.com>: >>>> >>>>> +1 Chris Lohfink response >>>>> >>>>> I would also restate the following sentence "java GC pauses are >>>>> pretty much a fact of life" to "Any GC based system pauses are pretty >>>>> much a fact of life". >>>>> >>>>> I would be more than happy to see if someone can counter prove. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lohfink <clohfin...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> No tuning will eliminate gcs. >>>>>> >>>>>> 20-30 seconds is horrific and out of the ordinary. Most likely >>>>>> implementing antipatterns and/or poorly configured. Sub 1s is realistic >>>>>> but >>>>>> with some workloads still may require some tuning to maintain. Some >>>>>> workloads are very unfriendly to GCs though (ie heavy tombstones, very >>>>>> wide >>>>>> partitions). >>>>>> >>>>>> Chris >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:25 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> From what I understand java GC pauses are pretty much a fact of >>>>>>> life, but you can tune the jvm to reduce the likelihood of the frequency >>>>>>> and length of GC pauses. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When using Cassandra, how frequent or long have these pauses known >>>>>>> to be? Even with tuning, is it safe to assume they cannot be >>>>>>> eliminated? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Would a 20-30 second pause be something out of the ordinary? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>> > -- Benjamin Roth Prokurist Jaumo GmbH · www.jaumo.com Wehrstraße 46 · 73035 Göppingen · Germany Phone +49 7161 304880-6 · Fax +49 7161 304880-1 AG Ulm · HRB 731058 · Managing Director: Jens Kammerer
