How new memtables create in cassandra node ? Are the created for every write basis's ? is there any max number we defined for cassandra memtablse in memory ?
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Erick Ramirez for the following reason: The question is answered, right answer was accepted
There are as many memtables as there are tables. That is the total number of tables in all keyspaces, regardless of how many keyspaces there are.
The total memory allocated for memtables are determined by the 2 parameters in cassandra.yaml:
memtable_heap_space_in_mbmemtable_offheap_space_in_mb
Cassandra uses the total of these 2 to determine the threshold for triggering memtable flushes to disk.
For more info, see the common memtable settings in cassandra.yaml.
UPDATE - The new writes (mutations) are temporarily stored in memtables but are also persisted to disk in the commitlog. When the a memtable is flushed to disk (written to an SSTable), the corresponding commitlog segment gets truncated since the mutations in it have already been persisted to disk.
But when a node goes down, the memtables are lost but the mutations they held are on disk. On startup, Cassandra checks if there are uncommitted mutations and replays the commitlog.
You can find out more about it in the Cassandra write path. Cheers!
Thanks @Erick Ramirezfor quick response :) .
So I f I have 100 tables in my all keyspace , then 100 memtables will be in memory ? If yes then the structure of memtable will remain always in memory ?
What happen when a node goes down , does it load all memtables structure again ? Kindly help to understand !
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