Hi Julien, We have such a use case on some clusters. If you want to insert big batches at fast pace the only viable solution is to generate SSTables on Spark side and stream them to C*. Last time we benchmarked such a job we achieved 1.3 million partitions inserted per seconde on a 3 C* nodes test cluster - which is impossible with regular inserts. Best, Romain Le lundi 5 février 2018 à 03:54:09 UTC+1, kurt greaves <k...@instaclustr.com> a écrit : Would you know if there is evidence that inserting skinny rows in sorted order (no batching) helps C*? This won't have any effect as each insert will be handled separately by the coordinator (or a different coordinator, even). Sorting is also very unlikely to help even if you did batch.
Also, in the case of wide rows, is there evidence that sorting clustering keys within partition batches helps ease C*'s job? No evidence, seems very unlikely.