Dealing With JVM Limitations in Apache CassandraA couple of most notable NoSQL databases targeting large scalable systems are written in Java: Cassandra, HBase, BigCouch. Then there’s also Hadoop. Plus a series of caching and data grid solutions like Terracotta, Gigaspaces. They are all facing the same challenge: tuning the JVM garbage collector for predictable latency and throughput. Jonathan Ellis’s slides presented at Fosdem 2012 are coverin
