Re: Upgrade to a different version?

2011-03-16 Thread Joshua Partogi
So did you downgraded it back to 0.6.x series? On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Paul Pak p...@yellowseo.com wrote: Sorry guys, that was meant to be private.  My opinion stands, but I didn't want to hurt any of the dev's feelings by being too frank.  I think the progress has been good in new

How does one node communicate with the other node?

2011-03-15 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi there, I am trying to understand the underlying architecture of cassandra. How does one node communicate with other node? Does cassandra use Thrift or JMX to communicate with other node? Kind regards, Joshua. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi

Re: dropping keyspace in cassandra

2011-03-02 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi Aaron, Does that mean the data will be deleted eventually? Does this also depends on the compaction configuration? Thanks. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Aaron Morton aa...@thelastpickle.com wrote: What exactly was the folder that was left in place? Dropping a keyspace does not physically

Re: Is it possible to get list of row keys?

2011-02-23 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi everyone, Thank you to everyone that have responded to my email. I really appreciate that. I am sorry for not making it clear in my original post that what I am looking for is the list of keys in the database assuming that the client application does not know the keys. From what I understand,

Re: Is it possible to get list of row keys?

2011-02-23 Thread Joshua Partogi
Thanks Roshan, I think I understand now. The setRowCount() is in the Java Cassandra driver. I'll try to find the similar method in the Ruby API. Kind regards, Joshua On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Roshan Dawrani roshandawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Joshua Partogi

Can I get a range of not deleted rows?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi there. It seems that when I fetch a range of rows, cassandra also includes rows that has been deleted. Is it possible to only get rows that has not been deleted? Thanks for your help. Kind regards, Joshua. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi

Re: Does Cassandra use vector clocks

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Partogi
NO it doesn't. Instead of using vector clock, it checks the column timestamps. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM, tijoriwala.ritesh tijoriwala.rit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I searched online but couldn't get a detailed document on whether Cassandra uses vector clocks or not? If yes, how does it

Is it possible to get list of row keys?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, Assuming the application does not know the list of keys that is stored inside cassandra, how would it be possible to get list of row keys? This list of row keys is going to be used to get a range of slices. Thank you for your help. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi

Re: simple erlang example

2011-02-19 Thread Joshua Partogi
and Cassandra since cassandra has ranges and build in secondary indexes whereas Riak does not. Actually I use others too as the different ones bring different qualities to the table. JT On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Joshua Partogi joshua.j...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any reason why you

Re: Replacing Redis

2011-02-18 Thread Joshua Partogi
Any reason why you want to do that? On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: I'm about to launch off on replacing redis with cassandra. I wonder if anyone else has ever been there and done that. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi

Re: simple erlang example

2011-02-18 Thread Joshua Partogi
Is there any reason why you would be interested to use erlang with cassandra instead of other erlang based database [i.e Couchbase, Riak] ? I am interested to know the reason. Kind regards, Joshua On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Sasha Dolgy sdo...@gmail.com wrote: hi, does anyone have an

Is Avro still supported?

2011-02-12 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, I saw in the latest source in trunk, avro codes has been deleted. Does this mean Avro is not supported anymore? If so, what was the decision behind dropping the support for Avro? Thanks -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi

Why is it when I removed a row the RowKey is still there?

2011-02-11 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, I am very puzzled with this. So I removed a row from the client, but when I query the data from CLI, the rowkey is still there: RowKey: 3 --- RowKey: 2 = (column=6e616d65, value=42696c6c, timestamp=1297338131027004) --- RowKey: 1 = (column=6e616d65,

Re: cassandra memory is huge

2011-02-08 Thread Joshua Partogi
Do you have loads of data? 1GB is quite reasonable knowing that 8GB is the recommended RAM size http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware Kind regards, Joshua. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Blaze Dowis bdow...@aucklanduni.ac.nz wrote: Why is it that when I start cassandra, it is

Re: Ruby thrift is trying to write Time as string

2011-02-07 Thread Joshua Partogi
Thanks Ryan. That makes more sense now. So I should instead find a way to (de)serialize Ruby objects to string vice versa when inserting to Column. Kind regards, Joshua On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Ryan King r...@twitter.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joshua Partogi joshua.j

Ruby thrift is trying to write Time as string

2011-02-05 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, I don't know whether my assumption is right or not. When I tried to insert a Time value into a column I am getting this exception: vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/protocol/binary_protocol.rb:106:in `write_string' vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/client.rb:35:in

Re: Document Mapper for Ruby?

2011-01-20 Thread Joshua Partogi
:03 PM, Joshua Partogi joshua.j...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is anyone aware of a document mapper for Ruby similar to MongoMapper? Thanks heaps for your help. Kind regards, Joshua. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi

Document Mapper for Ruby?

2011-01-19 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi all, Is anyone aware of a document mapper for Ruby similar to MongoMapper? Thanks heaps for your help. Kind regards, Joshua. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi http://twitter.com/scrum8

Is it possible to query using wildcards in cassandra 0.7?

2010-12-16 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi all, I really like the second index feature that has been added to 0.7 release. My question is, Is it possible to query using wildcards in cassandra 0.7? Thanks for the insights. Kind regards, Joshua. -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi http://twitter.com/scrum8

Re: How do you implement pagination?

2010-12-10 Thread Joshua Partogi
at 7:01 PM, Joshua Partogi joshua.j...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am interested to see people's way to do record pagination with cassandra because I can not find anything like MySQL LIMIT in cassandra. From what I understand you need to tell cassandra the Record ID for the beginning

Obscured question about data size in a Column Family

2010-12-09 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi there, Quoting an information in the wiki about Cassandra limitations ( http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraLimitations): ... So all the data from a given columnfamily/key pair had to fit in memory, or 2GB ... Does this mean 1. A ColumnFamily can only be 2GB of data 2. A Column

Re: fauna/cassandra gem does not work with Cassandra 0.7

2010-12-08 Thread Joshua Partogi
. -ryan On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Joshua Partogi joshua.j...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I pull out fauna/cassandra gem 0.10.0 from github. I then tried to get a value from cassandra as such. irb(main):002:0 require 'cassandra/0.7' = true irb(main):003:0 client = Cassandra.new

Re: fauna cassandra client 0.9.0

2010-12-08 Thread Joshua Partogi
Nice. Thanks for the hardwork Ryan. Will try this out tonight. Cheers, Joshua. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Ryan King r...@twitter.com wrote: I just pushed a 0.9.0 release of the fauna-cassandra ruby client. This is our first release that includes support for Cassandra 0.7 (currently

fauna/cassandra gem does not work with Cassandra 0.7

2010-12-07 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, I pull out fauna/cassandra gem 0.10.0 from github. I then tried to get a value from cassandra as such. irb(main):002:0 require 'cassandra/0.7' = true irb(main):003:0 client = Cassandra.new('Keyspace1', '127.0.0.1:9160') = #Cassandra:70286805872140, @keyspace=Keyspace1, @schema={},

Would it be possible to implement query language on top of Cassandra?

2010-12-04 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi, I am still new with cassandra and from what I know so far cassandra is based on Google BigTables model. And one thing that we can do with BigTable is query data using GQL. I tried looking for information about query language that is built on top of cassandra and ends with no luck. The only

Re: Set an index on column

2010-12-03 Thread Joshua Partogi
), index_name. example: update column family Foo with column_metadata=[{ column_name:Test, validation_class:IntegerType, index_type:0, index_name:IdxName}] and rows_cached=100 and comment='this is helpful comment.'; On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Joshua Partogi jpart...@scrum8.com wrote: Hi

Re: Set an index on column

2010-12-03 Thread Joshua Partogi
: internal error means there's an error in the server log On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Joshua Partogi jpart...@scrum8.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the hint. I've tried it but it throws an error like this: [defa...@keyspace1] update column family Standard1 with column_metadata

Re: Set an index on column

2010-12-03 Thread Joshua Partogi
then. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Tyler Hobbs ty...@riptano.com wrote: Sounds like 1764: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1764 This was fixed in RC1. - Tyler On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Joshua Partogi jpart...@scrum8.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thanks

Set an index on column

2010-12-02 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi there, How do I set an index on a column in cassandra 0.7? This is what I am trying to do: [defa...@keyspace1] get Standard1 where user = 'jpartogi'; No indexed columns present in index clause with operator EQ I can not find this in the CLI help nor the wiki. Maybe I am not looking hard

Re: Can not connect to cassandra 0.7 using CLI

2010-12-02 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi Eric, Thanks for the hint. I have found out that if there is an exception thrown, the thrift server won't be started. It is working fine now. Kind regards, joshua. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 08:11 +1100, Joshua Partogi

Can not connect to cassandra 0.7 using CLI

2010-12-01 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi there, I just downloaded cassandra 0.7rc1. I started it using bin/cassandra without making any configuration changes. I then tried to connect using the CLI with command like this: f...@ubuntu:~/Applications/apache-cassandra-0.7.0-rc1$ bin/cassandra-cli Welcome to cassandra CLI. Type 'help'

Re: Can not connect to cassandra 0.7 using CLI

2010-12-01 Thread Joshua Partogi
it was running fine on 0.6.8 though? On the same box or a different box? On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Joshua Partogi wrote: Hi there, I just downloaded cassandra 0.7rc1. I started it using bin/cassandra without making any configuration changes. I then tried to connect using the CLI with command like

Re: Can not connect to cassandra 0.7 using CLI

2010-12-01 Thread Joshua Partogi
listening to connections on. The comments there should help, if you set it to 0.0.0.0 it will bind to all interfaces. Probably not what you want in production but handy for dev. Hope that helps. Aaron On 02 Dec, 2010,at 09:40 AM, Joshua Partogi jpart...@scrum8.com wrote: Hi Brayton