Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-21 Thread Santal Li
In Webex, we are using Cassandra for store User Feed User Activity data, it was nearly real time, to support web user interactive, current was in early testing. We evaluated Voldemort, MemcacheDB, Dynomite. I most want : 1. support build second index on values or columns. 2. support some kind of

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-21 Thread Vitaly Kushner
At Astrails we are using Cassandra in a project for one of our clients. The performance requirements are such that would require database sharding from the beginning if we were to use an SQL solution We thing Cassandra's horizontal scaling allow us to more concentrate on the application an less on

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-21 Thread Jake Luciani
I'm about to release a twitter search engine built ontop of cassandra. If you are interested in beta testing it let me know. I would like to see cassandra support increment/decrement. -Jake On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd love to get a

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Were
Hi Jonathan, Firstly, thanks for all your help on this list. Without lots of your solutions / tips etc I probably wouldn't be using Cassandra. I've built a real-time search engine based around all the links that appear on twitter (http://www.mozzler.com/). Cassandra is my data store for all the

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Ryan King
At twitter we're working on using Cassandra to replace our currents storage for all tweets. We have a cluster in production that's being populated outside the the user-critical path (ie, the cassandra writing is async). Additionally, we're testing and evaluating for basically everything else in

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: I can start: Rackspace is using Cassandra for stats collection (testing, almost production) and as a backend for the Mail Apps division (early testing).  We evaluated HBase, Hypertable, dynomite, and Voldemort as well.

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Tim Underwood
My company runs a niche comparison shopping site where we take in all sorts of raw product data from various sources (retailers, manufacturers, distributors, etc...). We then have to take all that raw data and collapse it down across the data sources (e.g. product FOO from source A matches

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Ray Slakinski
Hello! Mahalo is currently testing Cassandra as an alternative data store to MySQL for certain pieces of our data. We are close to production which would see a move of 15 million rows from one table into a cluster which we hope will increase speed and allow us to scale the data as it grows more

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Erich Nachbar
Hi, I'm using Cassandra 0.4.2 at my current client to persist URL graphs for Spam detection. The crawling and page classification is done in Hadoop/Bixo/Cascading, which persists URL classification results into Cassandra. The incoming production traffic is using Cassandra for the real-time spam

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Edmond Lau
At Ooyala, we're in the process of testing and productionizing Cassandra to store and serve our near real-time video analytics data. Ooyala provides a comprehensive platform for professional video publishers and enterprise companies looking to build up their online video presence, and

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Joe Stump
SimpleGeo is using Cassandra as the backend of our real-time location infrastructure. We needed something that was distributed, could scale, could handle lots of writes, etc. We looked into all the usual suspects, but went with Cassandra because it was written in Java (we have two guys who

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Ian Holsman
We're looking at it to be part of a near real time Web analytics engine, which sounds similar to Ooyala. at the moment I'm pushing to get the thing open sourced if possible. we're looking at combining Cassandra + Esper, but we are still in the very early stages. On Nov 21, 2009, at 8:17 AM,