Little misinformative imo. While Cassandra has eventual consistency, reads are not slow necessarily. With the right Cache settings tuned correctly (KeysCached/R

Little misinformative imo. While Cassandra has eventual consistency, reads are not slow necessarily. With the right Cache settings tuned correctly (KeysCached/RowsCached) and available memory, Cassandra actually performs quite well. Cassandra is virtually worthless without those cache features kind of like MySQL is without indexes. They are slower than writes but I think it would've been more proper to talk about how the cache works and more interesting. Like any database, MySQL/Postgres/etc, it's a dark art in terms of understanding how to make it work.