[cmrdporcupine]

I remember using quite early versions of Cassandra back in an ad-tech startup I was at back in 2009 or 2010, spending unfortunate amounts of time fighting the JVM GC and trying to tune things so it behaved responsibly. It was a real problem then and I know a lot of work went into fixing GC behaviour. Then I stopped using Cassandra for work, but it's unfortunate this is still an issue?

What I took out of that is that I really feel like something like Cassandra is better suited to implementation in a language like C++ or Rust. And I believe others have since come along and done this.

I really liked the gossip-based federation in Cassandra though.

[ADefenestrator]

It's still an issue, but a lot less of one. 3.0 is a big improvement in terms of GC behavior. Haven't tested 3.11.x yet, but it look in theory like a decent improvement in terms of rounding off corner cases and adding instrumentation.

[estebank]

It sounds like you might be interested in TiKV.

https://github.com/pingcap/tikv

[cmrdporcupine]

Thanks.

Since coming to Google I don't get the opportunity to compare/evaluate/deploy tools like this anymore. Smarter people than me make choices like that :-)