What’s new in Cassandra 1.0: Performance | DatastaxAs we've worked towards 1.0 over the past year, Cassandra's performance has improved spectacularly. Compared to the current release this time in 2010, we've increased our write performance a respectable 40%. But the real area we wanted to focus on improving was read performance, which we succeeded in increasing a phenomenal 400%! Reads There are actually two different execution paths for reads in
