Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-12 Thread Eric Evans
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 01:06 +0530, Sumit Datta wrote: What I do not see are details as to why Cassandra is not being used to store tweets. Or the details of the implementation that does have Cassandra. I wouldn't let that stop you. You should consider doing what so many others are: treat all

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-12 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Colin Clark co...@cloudeventprocessing.com wrote: Although I'm a fan of Cassandra, there's no way I'd use it today for my tier 1 deployments, because I don't have the resources of Facebook, and even though Cassandra is open source, that doesn't mean I can fix it

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Marty Greenia
It almost seems counter-intuitive. For analytics, you'd think they'd want a database that supports more sophisticated query functionality (sql). Whereas for everyday tweet storage, something fast and high-throughput (cassandra) makes sense. I'd be curious to here the details as well. On Sat, Jul

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Dan Di Spaltro
This sounds more like high-throughput external analytics, aka they will know all the queries consumers will use. This isn't for internal analytics. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Marty Greenia martygree...@gmail.com wrote: It almost seems counter-intuitive. For analytics, you'd think they'd

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Ryan King
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Marty Greenia martygree...@gmail.com wrote: It almost seems counter-intuitive. For analytics, you'd think they'd want a database that supports more sophisticated query functionality (sql). Whereas for everyday tweet storage, something fast and high-throughput

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Colin Clark
I'm not aware of anyone classifying what twitter is doing today as 'working.' In fact, I believe that twitter's problems are much larger than just technology but that's a whole different subject. What twitter may have realized is that they don't have the resources of Facebook, that

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Sumit Datta
Hello, I have been a silent spectator in this list for a long while, and while I like reading much mail traffic, this one I thought I should reply to. You know what I see in all this? More Twitter and Facebook than Cassandra. Are we here to discuss them or the software? What I do not see are

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Brett Thomas
Idunno, I think understanding those companies' decisions is extremely relevant for anybody working with cassandra. I really like this thread and hope it keeps going. On Jul 10, 2010 3:38 PM, Sumit Datta sumitda...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been a silent spectator in this list for a long

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 01:06:31AM +0530, Sumit Datta wrote: Hello, I have been a silent spectator in this list for a long while, and while I like reading much mail traffic, this one I thought I should reply to. You know what I see in all this? More Twitter and Facebook than Cassandra. Are

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Benjamin Black
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Colin Clark co...@cloudeventprocessing.com wrote: Although I'm a fan of Cassandra, there's no way I'd use it today for my tier 1 deployments, because I don't have the resources of Facebook, and even though Cassandra is open source, that doesn't mean I can fix

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Colin Clark
Benjamin, Please see below - it sounds like you're taking this a little personally and I'm not sure why. You've made some errors in your reply. Colin +1 315 886 3422 cella +1 701 212 4314 office http://blog.cloudeventprocessing.com http://twitter.com/EventCloudPro

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Schubert Zhang
t is ardently discussing @http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502756 Here are my comments: 1. Cassandra is very young! Especially, the design and implementation of local storage and local indexing are junior and not good. 2. Pool read-performance is also due to the poor local storage

TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-09 Thread Kochheiser,Todd W - TOK-DITT-1
A good read. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/09/twitter-analytics-mysql/ Todd