Cassandra based web app benchmark

[Marko Asplund <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks (
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) is a collaborative effort for
measuring performance of a large number of contemporary web development
platforms. Benchmarking and test implementation code is published as
open-source.

I've contributed a test implementation that uses Apache Cassandra for data
storage and based on the following technology stack:
* Java
* Resin app server + Servlet 3 with asynchronous processing
* Apache Cassandra database (v2.0.12)

TFB Round 10 results are expected to be released in the near future with
results from Cassandra based test implementation included.

Now that the initial test implementation has been merged as part of the
project codebase, I'd like to solicit feedback from the Cassandra user and
developer community on best practices, especially wrt. to performance, with
the hope that the test implementation can get the best performance out of
Cassandra in future benchmark rounds.

Any review comments and pull requests would be welcome. The code can be
found on Github:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/master/frameworks/Java/servlet3-cass
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/master/config/cassandra

More info on the benchmark project, as well as the Cassandra based test
implementation can be found here:
http://practicingtechie.com/2014/09/10/web-application-framework-benchmarks/

thanks,

marko