Netflix AI Team Cuts Wide-Partition Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds by Splitting Cassandra Partitions Per ID

Netflix engineers detailed how they handle wide partitions in Apache Cassandra for the TimeSeries Abstraction. Two approaches work together: Time Slice re-partitioning tunes future partitions at the table level, while dynamic partitioning detects and splits oversized partitions per TimeSeries ID on the read path. Detection runs via byte counting and Kafka, splits are checksum-validated, and Bloom filters route reads to parallel child partitions. Average read latency dropped from seconds to low double-digit milliseconds, with 500MB+ partitions staying available.

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