Re: unbalanced ring

2012-03-27 Thread Tamar Fraenkel
This morning I have nodetool ring -h localhost Address DC RackStatus State LoadOwns Token 113427455640312821154458202477256070485 10.34.158.33us-east 1c Up Normal 5.78 MB 33.33% 0 10.38.175.131 us-east 1c Up

RE: Exceptions related to thrift transport

2012-03-27 Thread Tiwari, Dushyant
No the clients are fixed However sometimes the queries can be huge like this. To summarize I will have the following in my TODO list to rectify this: Try reducing the batch commit size. Please add some more checks here Thanks, Dushyant From: Ben Coverston [mailto:ben.covers...@datastax.com]

Re: problem in create column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
ya had created with UTF8Type before.. It gave the same error. On executing help assume command it is giving 'utf8' as a type. so can i use comparator='utf8' or not?? Please reply On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:17 PM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl wrote: You should use the full type names, e.g.

Re: problem in create column family

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
Not sure about that, what version of Cassandra are you using? Maybe someone else here knows how to solve this.. 2012/3/27 puneet loya puneetl...@gmail.com ya had created with UTF8Type before.. It gave the same error. On executing help assume command it is giving 'utf8' as a type. so can i

Re: How to store a list of values?

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
That's true, but it does not sound like a real problem to me.. Maybe someone else can shed some light upon this. 2012/3/27 samal samalgo...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:47 AM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl wrote: but any schema change will break it How do you mean? You don't have to

Re: Fwd: information on cassandra

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
Thank you Maki, wasn't aware of that. 2012/3/27 Maki Watanabe watanabe.m...@gmail.com auto_bootstrap has been removed from cassandra.yaml and always enabled since 1.0. fyi. maki 2012/3/26 R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl: Yes, you can add nodes to a running cluster. It's very simple:

Re: How to store a list of values?

2012-03-27 Thread samal
YEAH! agree, it only matter for time bucket data. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl wrote: That's true, but it does not sound like a real problem to me.. Maybe someone else can shed some light upon this. 2012/3/27 samal samalgo...@gmail.com On Tue, Mar 27, 2012

Re: unbalanced ring

2012-03-27 Thread Tamar Fraenkel
Thanks, I will wait and see as data accumulates. Thanks, *Tamar Fraenkel * Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media [image: Inline image 1] ta...@tok-media.com Tel: +972 2 6409736 Mob: +972 54 8356490 Fax: +972 2 5612956 On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl wrote:

Re: problem in create column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
I m using cassandra 1.0.8.. Please reply On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl wrote: Not sure about that, what version of Cassandra are you using? Maybe someone else here knows how to solve this.. 2012/3/27 puneet loya puneetl...@gmail.com ya had created with

Re: Schema advice/help

2012-03-27 Thread Guy Incognito
without the ability to do disjoint column slices, i would probably use 5 different rows. userId:itemType - activityId then it's a multiget slice of 10 items from each of your 5 rows. On 26/03/2012 22:16, Ertio Lew wrote: I need to store activities by each user, on 5 items types. I always

Re: problem in create column family

2012-03-27 Thread Guy Incognito
why don't you show us the command you're actually trying to run? On 27/03/2012 08:52, puneet loya wrote: I m using cassandra 1.0.8.. Please reply On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl mailto:ro...@us2.nl wrote: Not sure about that, what version of Cassandra are

Re: Schema advice/help

2012-03-27 Thread Maciej Miklas
multiget would require Order Preserving Partitioner, and this can lead to unbalanced ring and hot spots. Maybe you can use secondary index on itemtype - is must have small cardinality: http://pkghosh.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/cassandra-secondary-index-patterns/ On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM,

Re: Schema advice/help

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
You can just get a slice range with as start userId: and no end. 2012/3/27 Maciej Miklas mac.mik...@googlemail.com multiget would require Order Preserving Partitioner, and this can lead to unbalanced ring and hot spots. Maybe you can use secondary index on itemtype - is must have small

Re: tombstones problem with 1.0.8

2012-03-27 Thread Ross Black
Any pointers on what I should be looking for in our application that would be stopping the deletion of tombstones? Thanks, Ross On 26 March 2012 16:27, Viktor Jevdokimov viktor.jevdoki...@adform.comwrote: Upon read from S1 S6 rows are merged, T3 timestamp wins. T1 will be deleted upon S1

Re: tombstones problem with 1.0.8

2012-03-27 Thread Radim Kolar
Dne 27.3.2012 11:13, Ross Black napsal(a): Any pointers on what I should be looking for in our application that would be stopping the deletion of tombstones? do not delete already deleted rows. On read cassandra returns deleted rows as empty in range slices.

Re: Schema advice/help

2012-03-27 Thread Ertio Lew
@R. Verlangen: You are suggesting to keep a single row for all activities read all the columns from the row then filter, right!? If done that way (instead of keeping it in 5 rows) then I would need to retrieve 100s-200s of columns from single row rather than just 50 columns if I keep in 5

[BETA RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.1.0-beta2 released

2012-03-27 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of the second beta for the future Apache Cassandra 1.1. Note that this is beta software and as such is *not* ready for production use. The goal of this release is to give a preview of what will become Cassandra 1.1 and to get wider testing

Re: [BETA RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.1.0-beta2 released

2012-03-27 Thread Benoit Perroud
Hi All, Thanks a lot for the release. I just upgraded my 1.1-beta1 to 1.1-beta2, and I get the following error : INFO 10:56:17,089 Opening /app/cassandra/data/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hc-18 (74 bytes) INFO 10:56:17,092 Opening

Re: problem in create column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
create column family student with column_type = 'AsciiType' and column_metadata = [{ column_name : name, validation_class : 'AsciiType }]; On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Guy Incognito dnd1...@gmail.com wrote: why don't you show us the command you're actually trying to run? On

counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
Can u give an example of create column family with counter column in it. Please reply Regards, Puneet Loya

Re: cassandra 1.08 on java7 and win7

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
create keyspace DEMO with placement_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy' and strategy_options=[{datacenter1:1}]; try it n check if it executes On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Frank Hsueh frank.hs...@gmail.com wrote: create keyspace via cassandra cli

Re: counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
*create column family MyCounterColumnFamily with default_validation_class=CounterColumnType and key_validation_class=UTF8Type and comparator=UTF8Type;* There you go! Keys must be utf8, as well as the column names. Of course you can change those validators. Cheers! 2012/3/27 puneet loya

create column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
create column family users (uuid PRIMARY KEY firstname text, lastname text, email text, address text, zip int, state text); Is dis above statement correct? I m getting an error Syntax error at position 27: missing EOF at '(' Do reply Can u suggest the most stable version of cassandra??

Re: counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
thanxx a ton :) :) the counter column family works synonymous as 'auto increment' in other databases rite? I mean we have a column of type integer which increments with every insert. Am i goin the rite way?? please reply :) On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:50 PM, R. Verlangen ro...@us2.nl wrote:

Re: [BETA RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.1.0-beta2 released

2012-03-27 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
Actually, there was a few changes to the on-disk format of schema between beta1 and beta2 so upgrade is not supported between those two beta versions. Sorry for any inconvenience. -- Sylvain On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Benoit Perroud ben...@noisette.ch wrote: Hi All, Thanks a lot for

Re: create column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
how to use cql?? Rite now i m running dis file cassandra-cli.bat i connect localhost/9160; den i went into use pun; //its a keyspace using the create statement create COLUMNFAMILY users (KY uuid PRIMARY KEY*,* firstname text, lastname text, email text, address text, zip int, state

import

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
I want to import files from excel to cassandra? Is it possible?? Any tool that can help?? Whats the best way?? Plz reply :)

Re: counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
You should use a connection pool without retries to prevent a single increment of +1 have a result of e.g. +3. 2012/3/27 Rishabh Agrawal rishabh.agra...@impetus.co.in You can even define how much increment you want. But let me just warn you, as far my knowledge, it has consistency issues.

Re: counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
wen i m using a counter column.. i m nt able to add columns of other type to the column family.. is it so or it is just synactical error?? [default@CMDCv99] create column family status ... with comparator = AsciiType ... and column_metadata = ... [{ ...

Re: [BETA RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.1.0-beta2 released

2012-03-27 Thread Benoit Perroud
Thanks for the quick feedback. I will drop the schema then. Benoit. Le 27 mars 2012 14:50, Sylvain Lebresne sylv...@datastax.com a écrit : Actually, there was a few changes to the on-disk format of schema between beta1 and beta2 so upgrade is not supported between those two beta versions.

Re: Cannot start cassandra node anymore

2012-03-27 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Hi Carlo, Can you post steps to reproduce over on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3819 ? We have tried and failed to cause this problem. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Carlo Pires carlopi...@gmail.com wrote: I found out this is related to schema change. Happens *every time* I

Re: counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread Dave Brosius
Counter columns are special, they must be in a column family to themselves. On 03/27/2012 09:32 AM, puneet loya wrote: wen i m using a counter column.. i m nt able to add columns of other type to the column family.. is it so or it is just synactical error?? [default@CMDCv99] create column

Re: counter column family

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
now i want to have a field incrementing with every row insertion. how do i do it in cassandra?? On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Dave Brosius dbros...@mebigfatguy.comwrote: Counter columns are special, they must be in a column family to themselves. On 03/27/2012 09:32 AM, puneet loya wrote:

cqlsh

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
How do i use the cqlsh comand line utility?? I m using cassandra 1.0.8.. Does cqlsh command line utility comes with the download of cassandra 1.0.8 or we have to do it separately. Suggest a way to go further plz reply :)

Re: Schema advice/help

2012-03-27 Thread Guy Incognito
multiget does not require OPP. On 27/03/2012 09:51, Maciej Miklas wrote: multiget would require Order Preserving Partitioner, and this can lead to unbalanced ring and hot spots. Maybe you can use secondary index on itemtype - is must have small cardinality:

Re: import

2012-03-27 Thread R. Verlangen
You can write your own script to parse the excel file (export as csv) and import it with batch inserts. Should be pretty easy if you have experience with those techniques. 2012/3/27 puneet loya puneetl...@gmail.com I want to import files from excel to cassandra? Is it possible?? Any tool

Re: nodetool ring runs very slow

2012-03-27 Thread Feng Qu
Haven't received any reply. Resend...   Feng Qu From: Feng Qu mail...@gmail.com To: Cassandra User Group user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:49 PM Subject: nodetool ring runs very slow We noticed that nodetool ring sometimes

Re: nodetool ring runs very slow

2012-03-27 Thread Feng Qu
Hi Jonathan, similar problem happens again and there is only one GC running at that time per system.log.  This is one node of a 6-node 0.8.6 ring. Heap size on this host is 16GB. [fengqu@slcdbx1035 cassandra]$ date; time cnt ring Tue Mar 27 09:24:20 GMT+7 2012 Address DC  Rack   

Advice on architecture

2012-03-27 Thread André Cruz
Hello. I'm developing a system that will require me to store large (=4MB) columns in Cassandra. Right now I'm storing 1 column per row, in a single CF. The machines I have at my disposal are 32GB RAM machines with 10 SATA drives each. I would prefer to have a larger number of smaller nodes,

Re: How to store a list of values?

2012-03-27 Thread Ben McCann
I was given one other suggestion (which may have been suggested earlier in this thread, but is clearer to me with an example). The suggestion was to use composite columns and have the first part of the key name be skill and the second part be the specific skill and then store a null value. I

Re: copy data for dev

2012-03-27 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
If you have the disck space you can just copy all the data files from the snapshot onto the dev node, renaming any with conflicting names. Then bring up the dev node and it should see the data. you can then compact to merge and drop all the duplicate data. You can also use the sstable loader

Re: tombstones problem with 1.0.8

2012-03-27 Thread John Laban
(Radim: I'm assuming you mean do not delete already deleted columns as Ross doesn't delete his rows.) Just to be clear about Ross' situation: he continually inserts columns and later deletes columns from the same set of rows. As long as he *doesn't* *keep deleting already-deleted columns*

Re: cqlsh

2012-03-27 Thread Maki Watanabe
You can find it in the bin directory of the binary distribution. maki 2012/3/27 puneet loya puneetl...@gmail.com: How do i use the cqlsh comand line utility?? I m using cassandra 1.0.8.. Does cqlsh command line utility comes with the download of cassandra 1.0.8 or we have to do it

Re: cqlsh

2012-03-27 Thread puneet loya
i know cqlsh is in the bin directory .. how to run it on Windows? it is not a batch file that can be run directly? Should we use python to execute it?? plz show a way :) Reply On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Maki Watanabe watanabe.m...@gmail.comwrote: You can find it in the bin directory of

Re: cqlsh

2012-03-27 Thread Maki Watanabe
cqlsh is a python script. You need python, and cql driver for python. maki 2012/3/28 puneet loya puneetl...@gmail.com: i know cqlsh is in the bin directory .. how to run it on Windows? it is not a batch file that can be run directly? Should we use python to execute it?? plz show a way :)

Re: cqlsh

2012-03-27 Thread Nick Bailey
If you are running on windows the msi installer for datastax community edition will install everything you need and add appropriate entries to your start menu for running the cql shell or the normal cli shell. You can get the installer here: http://www.datastax.com/download/community That might