Hi Gedeon, you should check Robert Stupp's 2016 talk about large partitions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3mGxgnUiRY
Cheers, On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:42 PM Gedeon Kamga <gka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, > > Based on the information found here > https://docs.datastax.com/en/dse-planning/doc/planning/planningPartitionSize.html > , > the recommended limit for a partition size is 100MB. Even though, DataStax > clearly states that this is a rule of thumb, some team members are claiming > that our Cassandra *Write *is very slow because the partitions on some > tables are over 100MB. I know for a fact that this rule has changed since > 2.2. Starting Cassandra 2.2 and up, the new rule of thumb for partition > size is *a few hundreds MB*, given the improvement on the architecture. > Now, I am unable to find the reference (maybe I got it at a Cassandra > training by DataStax). I would like to share it with my team. Did anyone > come across this information? If yes, can you please share it? > > Thanks! > -- ----------------- Alexander Dejanovski France @alexanderdeja Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com