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Not exactly. Cassandra writes commit log, and if JVM will crash, cassandra will repair data from that log.



how often it fsyncs that log?


It can be configured: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Durability One option is to fsync changes before telling client that operation is succeeded.


And get what benchmarks?)


Benchmark will be not so good, but do you have better choice?




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