the ingestion is based on Vertices with 3-4 properties and edges connect them

In case of event i need to : upsert vertices and create edges 

so i traverse on composite index twice to get vertices ( in case i dont find them - i create them)

 Then i add  the edge

Checking the existence for every and each vertex twice for every event ( and i have thousands / sec)

Is very problematic and decreases the throughput from 3000 / core for insert only to 700/800 /core for every vertex existence test

In order to improve this i have several ideas

1. search vertex by id only with manual id assignment but this can impact vertx distribution accross cassandra cluster

2. making upsert for edge creation - in case id doesnt exist - create it without any properties and add edge, later on if vertx creation will occure - add ptoperties to existing vertex id ( its actually empty vertex instance)

What do you think about ideas or maybe you have another options?

 Main question is : How to create edges without existing vertices in order not to check their existence and get write perf degradation?