Blogs — September 2014

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Cassandra Summit 2014 - Summary

Monday 22nd September 2014 by Instaclustr

Wow, what a week it was. Seven days later and our heads are still spinning. The Cassandra Summit officially ran over the 10th and the 11th of September, but for the Instaclustr team it started a lot earlier with us all flying into San Francisco from Canberra, Australia over the weekend. We had a healthy […]

Technical Technical — Cassandra

Fixing a compaction mistake

Thursday 4th September 2014 by Instaclustr

Apache Cassandra’s log-structured storage engine delivers amazing performance by ensuring that all inserts and updates are written sequentially to disk. Once data is written to disk as an sstable it is never modified. When you change a record, the new version of it is written to the next data sstable on disk. Over time read performance […]