It’s still a goal to keep the server startup times small, but not a requirement. Let’s focus on the functional enhancements first and then assess the tradeoffs. 

On 14 Jan 2015, at 21:29, Heiko W.Rupp <hrupp@redhat.com> wrote:


The main driver for memory backend was the (added) startup time of Cassandra vs. memory. 
When Wildfly itself starts in 3-4 seconds, adding 2-3 more for C* seems pretty odd. My understanding is/has been
that people do not want to take this hit.