Java GC pauses, reality check

2016-11-25 Thread S Ahmed
Hello! >From what I understand java GC pauses are pretty much a fact of life, but you can tune the jvm to reduce the likelihood of the frequency and length of GC pauses. When using Cassandra, how frequent or long have these pauses known to be? Even with tuning, is it safe to assume they cannot

what operations don't update materialized views?

2016-11-18 Thread S Ahmed
Hi, Are there any operations that skip updating the materialized views?

store individual inventory items in a table, how to assign them correctly

2016-11-07 Thread S Ahmed
Say I have 100 products in inventory, instead of having a counter I want to create 100 rows per inventory item. When someone purchases a product, how can I correctly assign that customer a product from inventory without having any race conditions etc? Thanks.

RE: wide rows

2016-10-18 Thread S Ahmed
Hi, Can someone clarify how you would model a "wide" row cassandra table? From what I understand, a wide row table is where you keep appending columns to a given row. The other way to model a table would be the "regular" style where each row contains data so you would during a SELECT you would

understanding partitions and # of nodes

2016-09-21 Thread S Ahmed
Hello, If you have a 10 node cluster, how does having 10 partitions or 100 partitions change how cassandra will perform? With 10 partitions you will have 1 partition per node. WIth 100 partitions you will have 10 partitions per node. With 100 partitions I guess it helps because when you add

understanding partitions

2016-09-21 Thread S Ahmed
Hello, If you have a 10 node cluster, how does having 10 partitions or 100 partitions change how cassandra will perform? With 10 partitions you will have 1 partition per node. WIth 100 partitions you will have 10 partitions per node. With 100 partitions I guess it helps because when you add

RE: no more zookeeper?

2014-01-28 Thread S Ahmed
Does C* no long use zookeeper? I don't see a reference to it in the https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/build.xml If not, what replaced it?

Re: no more zookeeper?

2014-01-28 Thread S Ahmed
in the original facebook thrown over the wall to zk. No official release has ever used zk directly. Though people have suggested it. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Andrey Ilinykh ailin...@gmail.comwrote: Why would cassandra use zookeeper? On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:18 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1

Re: Which of these VPS configurations would perform better for Cassandra ?

2013-08-06 Thread S Ahmed
From what I understood tons of people are running things on ec2, but it could be the instance size is pretty large that it compares to a dedicated server (especially if you go with SSD, it is like 1K/month!) On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Aaron Morton aa...@thelastpickle.comwrote: how many

Re: funnel analytics, how to query for reports etc.

2013-07-23 Thread S Ahmed
to store counters, you can count anything, number of sessions, total number of events, number of particular events etc. One row per day for example. Then you can retrieve this row and calculate all required %. On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:05 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Would cassandra

high write load, with lots of updates, considerations? tomestombed data coming back to life

2013-07-23 Thread S Ahmed
I was watching some videos from the C* summit 2013 and I recall many people saying that if you can some up with a design where you don't preform updates on rows, that would make things easier (I believe it was because there would be less compaction). When building an Analytics (time series) app

funnel analytics, how to query for reports etc.

2013-07-20 Thread S Ahmed
Would cassandra be a good choice for creating a funnel analytics type product similar to mixpanel? e.g. You create a set of events and store them in cassandra for things like: event#1 user visited product page event#2 user added product to shopping cart event#3 user clicked on checkout page

is there a key to sstable index file?

2013-07-17 Thread S Ahmed
Since SSTables are mutable, and they are ordered, does this mean that there is a index of key ranges that each SS table holds, and the value could be 1 more sstables that have to be scanned and then the latest one is chosen? e.g. Say I write a value abc to CF1. This gets stored in a sstable.

is there a key to sstable index file?

2013-07-17 Thread S Ahmed
Since SSTables are mutable, and they are ordered, does this mean that there is a index of key ranges that each SS table holds, and the value could be 1 more sstables that have to be scanned and then the latest one is chosen? e.g. Say I write a value abc to CF1. This gets stored in a sstable.

Re: does anyone store large values in cassandra e.g. 100kb?

2013-07-09 Thread S Ahmed
with semi-large objects, and it works well with wide rows, but you have to be careful about the combination where rows get larger than 64 Mb. T# On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:13 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, Can you describe your environment, # of documents and what kind

does anyone store large values in cassandra e.g. 100kb?

2013-07-08 Thread S Ahmed
I'm guessing that most people use cassandra to store relatively smaller payloads like 1-5kb in size. Is there anyone using it to store say 100kb (1/10 of a megabyte) and if so, was there any tweaking or gotchas that you ran into?

Re: does anyone store large values in cassandra e.g. 100kb?

2013-07-08 Thread S Ahmed
Hi Peter, Can you describe your environment, # of documents and what kind of usage pattern you have? On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Peter Lin wool...@gmail.com wrote: I regularly store word and pdf docs in cassandra without any issues. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:46 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1

videos of 2013 summit

2013-07-04 Thread S Ahmed
Hi, Are the videos online anywhere for the 2013 summit?

how to debug/trace

2011-12-16 Thread S Ahmed
How can you possibly trace a read/write in cassandra's codebase when it uses so many threadpools/executers? I'm just getting into threads so I'm not to familiar with how one can trace things while in debug mode in IntelliJ when various thread pools are processing things etc.

java lib used in cli to provide auto-completion

2011-11-17 Thread S Ahmed
Hi folks, I'm curious what java lib is used to provide auto-completion in the cli? Or is it all custom code?

unsubscribe

2011-01-28 Thread S Ahmed

linux flavor?

2010-08-24 Thread S Ahmed
Is there a particular linux flavor that plays best with Cassandra? I believe the file system plays big role also, any comments in this regard? thanks.

Re: indexing rows ordered by int

2010-08-17 Thread S Ahmed
friends touch a story. -Chris On Aug 15, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Benjamin Black wrote: http://code.google.com/p/redis/ On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: For CF that I need to perform range scans on, I create separate CF that have custom ordering. Say a CF

indexing rows ordered by int

2010-08-15 Thread S Ahmed
For CF that I need to perform range scans on, I create separate CF that have custom ordering. Say a CF holds comments on a story (like comments on a reddit or digg story post) So if I need to order comments by votes, it seems I have to re-index every time someone votes on a comment (or batch it

why does it take 60-90 seconds for a new node to get up?

2010-08-10 Thread S Ahmed
Why is it that, if you set AutoBootStrap = false that it takes 60-90 seconds for the node to announce itself? I just want to understand what is going on during that time, and why that specific timeframe (if there is a reason?)

Re: Question on nodetool ring

2010-08-09 Thread S Ahmed
that's the token range so node#1 is from 1600.. to 429.. node#2 is from 429... to 1600... hopefully others can chime into confirm. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Mark static.void@gmail.com wrote: I'm running a 2 node cluster and when I run nodetool ring I get the following output

Re: Question on nodetool ring

2010-08-09 Thread S Ahmed
b/c node#1 has a start and end range, so you can see the boundaries for each node by looking at the last column. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Mark static.void@gmail.com wrote: On 8/9/10 12:51 PM, S Ahmed wrote: that's the token range so node#1 is from 1600.. to 429.. node#2

Re: Growing commit log directory.

2010-08-09 Thread S Ahmed
if your commit logs are not getting cleared, doesn't that indicate your load is more than your servers can handle? On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Edward Capriolo edlinuxg...@gmail.comwrote: I have a 16 node 6.3 cluster and two nodes from my cluster are giving me major headaches.

explanation of generated files and ops

2010-08-09 Thread S Ahmed
In /var/lib/cassandra there is: /data/system LocationInfo-4-Data.db LocationInfo-4-Filter.db LocationInfo-4-Index.db .. .. /data/Keyspace1/ Standard2-2-Data.db Standard2-2-Filter.db Standard2-2-Index.db /commitlog CommitLog-timestamp.log /var/log/cassandra system.log Is this pretty much all

cassandra summit, making videos?

2010-07-27 Thread S Ahmed
Will there be videos of the session at the Cassandra Summit in SF? I am really interested in the Cassandra codebase/internals seminar.

Re: Estimated release for Cassandra 0.6.4

2010-07-21 Thread S Ahmed
So is it a good estimate to give about 1 month per +.1 release? i.e. 7.0 should be around October/November? (btw great work, keep it up!) On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:15 AM, CassUser CassUser cassu...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Eric. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Eric Evans

Re: Cassandra benchmarking on Rackspace Cloud

2010-07-19 Thread S Ahmed
I'm reading what this thread and I am a little lost, what should the expected behavioral be? Should it maintain 53K regardless of nodes? nodes reads/sec 1 53,000 2 37,000 4 37,000 I ran this test previously on the cloud, with similar results: nodes reads/sec 1

Re: Newbie to cassandra

2010-07-18 Thread S Ahmed
read the wiki, read about nosql in general. download and install it, play with it. browse the source code. read the bigdata paper by google, dynamo by amazon. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM, sonia gehlot sonia.geh...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I am new to Cassandra and wanted to try and

Re: key types and grouping related rows together

2010-07-15 Thread S Ahmed
this article may help http://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/cassandra-randompartitioner-vs-orderpreservingpartitioner/ Aaron On 15 Jul, 2010,at 08:44 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the link that describes the various key types and their impact on sorting? (I believe I read

Re: key types and grouping related rows together

2010-07-15 Thread S Ahmed
(websiteidBytes, stampBytes); } So say this key is used in a ColumnFamily that stores Articles for all websites, using a key like this would allow me to get a range of articles written, ordered by date, for a specific website correct? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com

Re: key types and grouping related rows together

2010-07-15 Thread S Ahmed
keys. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:44 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Where is the link that describes the various key types and their impact on sorting? (I believe I read it before, can't seem to find it now). So my application supports multi-tenants, so I need the keys to represent

Re: key types and grouping related rows together

2010-07-15 Thread S Ahmed
10 articles for a given website, how would I formulate my key to achieve this? I basically need to understand how to handle multi-tenancy, b/c I will need to do this for almost all my CF's. I'm a little stuck here so guidance would be great! On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:01 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1

Re: NYC Cassandra training

2010-07-14 Thread S Ahmed
How will we load the VM on our machines? Do we download it ? Is it running Ubuntu? On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: Turns out we can get a list from Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/474011012?s=1926097 On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:09 PM,

key types and grouping related rows together

2010-07-14 Thread S Ahmed
Where is the link that describes the various key types and their impact on sorting? (I believe I read it before, can't seem to find it now). So my application supports multi-tenants, so I need the keys to represent things like: website1123 + contentID or website3454 + userID And for range

Re: advice, is cassandra suitable for a multi-tanency vBulletin type application?

2010-07-13 Thread S Ahmed
The only issue I see (please correct me if I am wrong) is that you loose, is that you have single points of failure in the system now i.e. redis etc. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Sandeep Kalidindi at PaGaLGuY.com sandeep.kalidi...@pagalguy.com wrote: @michael - benjamin answered your

Re: advice, is cassandra suitable for a multi-tanency vBulletin type application?

2010-07-12 Thread S Ahmed
took care of most of the functionality that vbulletin offers and much more. Cheers, Deepu. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Paul Prescod pres...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: I want to build a vBulletin type application (forums, threads

Re: server needs thrift to run also?

2010-07-12 Thread S Ahmed
: The Thrift server is embedded in Cassandra, and starts by default. Look for references to Thrift on: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted Thanks, Stu -Original Message- From: S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:43pm To: user@cassandra.apache.org

Re: server needs thrift to run also?

2010-07-12 Thread S Ahmed
. -michael On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stu Hood stu.h...@rackspace.com wrote: You'll need Thrift installed to generate the _client_ code: the server code is embedded within Cassandra. -Original Message- From: S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:49pm

Re: advice, is cassandra suitable for a multi-tanency vBulletin type application?

2010-07-12 Thread S Ahmed
scratch with most of the needed functionality. Cheers, Deepu. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Very interesting! What kind of integration do you have between vB and Cassandra? its not a port then? On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Sandeep Kalidindi

advice, is cassandra suitable for a multi-tanency vBulletin type application?

2010-07-11 Thread S Ahmed
I want to build a vBulletin type application (forums, threads, posts, user management, etc). Support multi-tenancy for a Saas type environment. Would Cassandra be suitable for this type of application? Thanks in advance.

Re: NYC Cassandra training

2010-07-09 Thread S Ahmed
My previous reply seemed to have bounced. Will there be a training day before/after the Cassandr Summit? (in SF on the 10th) On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: Riptano's one day Cassandra training is coming to NYC in August, our first public session on the

Re: Digg 4 Preview on TWiT

2010-07-04 Thread S Ahmed
Agreed, what exactly did they replace it with. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Bill de hÓra b...@dehora.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:51 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 07:53 -0700, Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1 wrote: On a related but separate note: While I am fairly

Re: facebook search index super column, do I have this correct?

2010-07-02 Thread S Ahmed
Actually I think in the video they said they store each messageID as a seperate column, that way they can do range queries correct? so it would be: aloha: { message1: 2343, message2: 9590002, } On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: So trying to map how

Pelops 'up and running' post question + WTF is a SuperColumn = really confused.

2010-07-02 Thread S Ahmed
https://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/pelops-the-beautiful-cassandra-database-client-for-java So using the code snipped below, I want to create a json representation of the CF (super). /** * Write multiple sub-column values to a super column... * @param rowKeyThe key of

Re: Pelops 'up and running' post question + WTF is a SuperColumn = really confused.

2010-07-02 Thread S Ahmed
-4237-82CE-AE53A74FB747: { category: somethingElse, reportType: FOO, ...} } } On 3 July 2010 02:29, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: https://ria101.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/pelops-the-beautiful-cassandra-database-client-for-java So using the code snipped below, I want to create

vector maps and counts

2010-07-01 Thread S Ahmed
(I realize the ability to get/set a count constantly is coming in a upcoming release) Can someone give me a high level of the design of the vector map solution? Is the actual count value stored in the CF row or is it stored separately?

where is the video just before this one by Avinash?

2010-07-01 Thread S Ahmed
In this video: http://vimeo.com/5185526 Avinash mentions that the previous presenter covered allot of what he was to cover. Does anyone have a link to that presentation?

facebook search index super column, do I have this correct?

2010-07-01 Thread S Ahmed
So trying to map how facebook implemented a CF of type Super to index message terms. Is this json representation correct? MessageIndex = { userid1 : { aloha : { messageIdList: 234,2343234,23423434,234255,345345,2342,532432}, clown : { messageIdList: 632, 2342, 23452, 234234,

Re: forum application data model conversion

2010-06-23 Thread S Ahmed
Any thoughts? On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:13 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Converting a Forum application to cassandra's data model. Tables: Posts [postID, threadID, userID, subject, body, created, lastmodified] So this table contains the actual question subject and body. When

forum application data model conversion

2010-06-22 Thread S Ahmed
Converting a Forum application to cassandra's data model. Tables: Posts [postID, threadID, userID, subject, body, created, lastmodified] So this table contains the actual question subject and body. When a user logs in, they want to see a list of their questions, and also order by the

django or pylons

2010-06-20 Thread S Ahmed
Seeing as I will be using a different ORM, would it make more sense to use pylons over django? From what I understand, pylons assumes less as compared to django.

CF that is like a non-clustered index, are key lookups that fast?

2010-06-15 Thread S Ahmed
If you store only the key mappings in a column family, for custom ordering of rows etc. for things like: friends = { user_id : { friendid1, friendid2, } } or topForumPosts = { forum_id1 : { post2343, post32343, post32223, ...} } Now on friends page or on the top_forum_posts

Re: CF that is like a non-clustered index, are key lookups that fast?

2010-06-15 Thread S Ahmed
well it won't be a range, it will be random key lookups. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Gary Dusbabek gdusba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:29, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: If you store only the key mappings in a column family, for custom ordering of rows etc

using cassandra w/django

2010-06-11 Thread S Ahmed
When using cassandra with django, can you still use the rapid development freatures of django w/cassandra or are you basically just using the framework but the models and ORM features are up to you to implement since you are using cassandra.

Re: using cassandra w/django

2010-06-11 Thread S Ahmed
. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:18 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: When using cassandra with django, can you still use the rapid development freatures of django w/cassandra or are you basically just using the framework but the models and ORM features are up to you to implement since you

Re: Cassandra training Jun 18 in SF

2010-06-04 Thread S Ahmed
Nice! Would it be possible to give more than 2 weeks notice for the following events? Preferrably a month, its not that easy to get off work etc. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Oleg Anastasjev olega...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Ellis jbellis at gmail.com writes: This will be Riptano's

Re: Problems running Cassandra 0.6.1 on large EC2 instances.

2010-05-21 Thread S Ahmed
curious how did things turn out? On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Curt Bererton c...@zipzapplay.com wrote: We only have a few CFs (6 or 7). I've increased the MemtableThroughputInMB and MemtableOperationsInMillions as per your suggestions. Do we really need a swap file though? I suppose it

is it possible to trace/debug cassandra?

2010-05-18 Thread S Ahmed
Would it be possible to put cassandra in debug mode, so I could actually step through, line by line, the execution flow of operations I execute against it? If yes, any help would be great.

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-17 Thread S Ahmed
Jonathan, Curious how many people have signed up? I hope you will do another one soon! On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Vick Khera vi...@khera.org wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Matt Revelle mreve...@gmail.com wrote: Reston, VA is a good spot in the DC metro area for tech events.

Re: zookeeper, how do you feed the pets?

2010-05-16 Thread S Ahmed
a lot of writes for counters, I highly advise against it. We got rid of ZK because of that. -Chris On May 16, 2010, at 7:04 PM, S Ahmed wrote: Can someone quickly go over how you go about using zookeeper if you want to store counts and have those counts be accurate? e.g. in digg's case I

is cassandra really a 'handsoff' solution once setup?

2010-05-14 Thread S Ahmed
realizing cassandra might be a little tricky to setup at first due to lack of docs etc. Once it is up and running/humming, is it a hands-off solution or does it require hand-holding/monitoring? I recall Joe Stump's blog post stating that it doesn't require an admin (or somethign to that effect

what/how do you guys monitor slow nodes?

2010-05-11 Thread S Ahmed
If you have 3-4 nodes, how do you monitor the performance of each node?

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-09 Thread S Ahmed
I guess the hard part would be recording something so long (9-5pm) A video that is split between the screen (say powerpoint) and linux console would be perfect :) On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Todd Burruss bburr...@real.com wrote: +1 -Original Message- *From:* S Ahmed [sahmed1

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-07 Thread S Ahmed
toronto :) If not toronto, Virginia. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: We're planning that now. Where would you like to see one? On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have rough ideas when you would be doing

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-07 Thread S Ahmed
Programmer Clojure class sold out and already has two more return visits planned. On May 7, 2010, at 6:42 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.comsahmed1...@gmail.com sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: toronto :) If not toronto, Virginia. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-06 Thread S Ahmed
Do you have rough ideas when you would be doing the next one? Maybe in 1 or 2 months or much later? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, although when and where are TBD. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Greene green...@gmail.com wrote:

Is Hector a wrapper around thrift?

2010-04-27 Thread S Ahmed
Just trying to get my head wrapped around everything here, so bare with me :) So Thrift can spit out generated code for any language, be it C#, Java or python etc. Hector is a higher level wrapper around the java generated code by Thrift. Do I have this right? And Hector is probably the most

Re: getting cassandra setup on windows 7

2010-04-25 Thread S Ahmed
cassandra to start. It still throws another error complaining about the log4j.properties. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:59 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Any insights? Much appreciated! On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:13 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: I was just reading that thanks

value size, is there a suggested limit?

2010-04-25 Thread S Ahmed
Is there a suggested sized maximum that you can set the value of a given key? e.g. could I convert a document to bytes and store it as a value to a key? if yes, which I presume so, what if the file is 10mb? or 100mb?

Re: getting cassandra setup on windows 7

2010-04-23 Thread S Ahmed
Any insights? Much appreciated! On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:13 PM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: I was just reading that thanks. What does he mean when he says: This appears to be related to data storage paths I set, because if I switch the paths back to the default UNIX paths

Re: cassandra instability

2010-04-22 Thread S Ahmed
If digg uses PHP with cassandra, can the library really be that old? Or they are using their own custom php cassandra client? (probably, but just making sure). On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Lee Parker

security, firewall level only?

2010-04-21 Thread S Ahmed
Is security in terms of remote clients connecting to a cassandra node done purely at the hardware/firewall level? i.e. there is no username/pwd like in mysql/sqlserver correct? Or permissions at the column family level per user ?

Just to be clear, cassandra is web framework agnostic b/c of Thrift?

2010-04-18 Thread S Ahmed
Just want to be clear, is it true that it really makes no difference if my web application is asp.net or java or python, since the way we communicate to Cassandra is via the Thrift generated interface? Obviously if you run asp.net on windows, it is probably a VERY good idea to be running

Re: Just to be clear, cassandra is web framework agnostic b/c of Thrift?

2010-04-18 Thread S Ahmed
j...@joestump.net wrote: On Apr 18, 2010, at 5:33 PM, S Ahmed wrote: Obviously if you run asp.net on windows, it is probably a VERY good idea to be running cassandra on a linux box. Actually, I'm not sure this is true. A few people have found Windows performs fairly well with Cassandra

if cassandra isn't ideal for keep track of counts, how does digg count diggs?

2010-04-06 Thread S Ahmed
From what I read in another thread, Cassandra isn't used for isn't 'ideal' for keeping track of counts. For example, I would undertand this to mean keeping track of which stories were dugg. If this is true, how would a site like digg keep track of the 'dugg' counter? Also, I am assuming with

Re: if cassandra isn't ideal for keep track of counts, how does digg count diggs?

2010-04-06 Thread S Ahmed
for it yet. -ryan On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: From what I read in another thread, Cassandra isn't used for isn't 'ideal' for keeping track of counts. For example, I would undertand this to mean keeping track of which stories were dugg