Netflix Benchmarks Cassandra on AWS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 1, 2011

“Remember when you were doing math problems in school, and the
teacher required you to show your work? Didn’t you hate that? Yeah,
me too. But when geeks show their work in solving tough, real-world
problems? I love that. And there’s a lot to love in this post by
Netflix’s Adrian Cockcroft and Denis Sheahan.

Netflix is deploying Apache Cassandra as a data store for
production use. While setting it up, Netflix has created benchmarks
to stress-test Cassandra running on AWS, and they’ve shared a lot
of results.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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