What is Memtable

A memtable is an interactive touch table that supports co-located group meeting by capturing both digital and physical interaction in its memory. A memtable is basically a write-back cache of data rows that can be looked up by key i.e. unlike a write-through cache, writes are batched up in the memtable until it is full, when a memtable is full, and it is written to disk as SSTable. Memtable is an in-memory cache with content stored as key/column. Memtable data are sorted by key; each ColumnFamily has a separate Memtable and retrieve column data from the key. Cassandra writes are first written to the CommitLog. After writing to CommitLog, Cassandra writes the data to memtable.