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Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

urdak writes: At Cassandra Summit opening today, Avi Kivity and Dor Laor (who had previously written KVM and OSv) announced ScyllaDB — an open-source C++ rewrite of Cassandra, the popular NoSQL database. ScyllaDB claims to achieve a whopping 10 times more throughput per node than the original Java code, with sub-millisecond 99%ile latency. They even measured 1 million transactions per second on a single node. The performance of the new code is attributed to writing it in Seastar — a C++ framework for writing complex asynchronous applications with optimal performance on modern hardware.

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  1. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would say that 95% of all people I know in person, who learned C first and not: Assembler, Pascal, SmallTalk, Lisp are extremely bad on advanced language concepts like functional or oo programming. Most of them shifted to scripting and operating servers and don't "code". A minority is doing embedded programming in C++ which mainly looks like C.

    The idea that learning C first has any advantage is completely bollocks, a /. myth.

    I started with C in 1987 ... on Sun Solaris (after 6 years Assembler, Pascal and BASIC) ... 1989 I switched to C++. I never looked back.

    Only masochists would look back at C of that period.

    ANSI C is much better ... but still: when I see a self proclaimed C genius with 30 years experience program Java or C++ ... shudder.

    --
    Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
  2. Re:Garbage collected virtual machines! by fragMasterFlash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage"

    -Bjarne Stroustrup