Re: Distributed Counters Use Cases

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Standefer
Ryan, Thanks for the insight. FWIW, SimpleGeo's use cases are very similar do the 2nd use case Ryan mentioned. We want to do rollups by time, geography, and facet of a customer's record. The most important benefit Cassandra brings for us is the ability to handle large number of rows (very

Distributed Counters Use Cases

2010-10-06 Thread Ryan King
In the spirit of making sure we have clear communication about our work, I'd like to outline the use cases Twitter has for distributed counters. I expect that many of you using Cassandra currently or in the future will have similar use cases. The first use case is pretty simple: high scale