I am wondering If for example I have designed a data model with a partition key and that in that partition key there is one key present in the partition key that is associated with most of the data. As per my understanding data with same key partition will go to same partition and in this case one partition will be created with most of the data and that could lead to performance issue . I do understand partition key selection is here not right but if it happens what are ways to avoid this problem ?
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What happens when most of the data is in one single partition?
When most of the data in your cluster belongs to one partition it means that the replicas for that partition will constantly be taking the load regardless of the size of your cluster.
For example if the keyspace has a replication factor of 3, only three nodes in your cluster will get all the reads and writes even when you have 10, 100 or 1000 nodes in your cluster.
To avoid this, you must model your data correctly. There is no other way around it. Cheers!
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