October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Given its log-based storage model and memtable/commitlog design, Apache Cassandra usually does very well when it comes to high-performance data-ingestion. That being said, it is not uncommon to hear of application teams complaining about Cassandra nodes being saturated with load due to writes. Here is a short list of things to check when write performance suffers.