New Apache Cassandra Release Saves 400% IOPS
a year ago
- #Storage Solutions
- #Apache Cassandra
- #Performance Optimization
- Apache Cassandra 5.0.4 released on April 10, 2025, with performance optimizations, especially for remotely attached storage like Amazon EBS.
- New compaction algorithm reduces IOPS usage and increases throughput, addressing a long-standing bottleneck.
- Benchmarks show up to 3x more throughput and significantly reduced IOPS usage with the new compaction logic.
- Read latency and throughput improved due to decreased time spent waiting for pread.
- Simplyblock complements Cassandra’s improvements by offering high-performance, scalable storage solutions.
- Simplyblock features include multi-attach and erasure coding for storage footprint reduction, ultra-low latency for sensitive workloads, and instant clones for development.
- Cassandra 5.0.4 highlights the need for scalable storage architectures to match modern distributed databases.