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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

As part of our benchmarking we recently decided to run a test designed to validate our tooling and automation scalability as well as the performance characteristics of Cassandra. Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Co-Working Space.