Re: Uderstanding Read after update

2015-04-12 Thread Anishek Agarwal
Thanks Tyler for the validations, I have a follow up question. One SSTable doesn't have precedence over another. Instead, when the same cell exists in both sstables, the one with the higher write timestamp wins. if my table has 5(non partition key columns) and i update only 1 of them then the

Re: PHP Cassandra Driver for 2.0.13

2015-04-12 Thread Anishek Agarwal
Hey Alex, We are planning on using Cassandra 2.0.13 and looks like it will take us a month to go production. Since the team that needs PHP is only going to read, if we dont think there is to much integration testing or otherwise we need to do with PHP driver so if we get a PHP production driver

Re: PHP Cassandra Driver for 2.0.13

2015-04-12 Thread Anishek Agarwal
the php team is very stringent about response times, i will see if we can do a node js web service or some form of inter process communication setup between php == python to achieve this, thanks for the idea. On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Michael Dykman mdyk...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhat over

Re: Heap memory usage while writing

2015-04-12 Thread Anishek Agarwal
I do understand how MaxTenuringThreshold works, thanks for your evaluation though. I dont think you saw my complete post with the values i have used for the heap size and and the *memtable_total_space_in_mb=2048* which is two times smaller than the young generation space i am using. additionally

Re: Drawbacks of Major Compaction now that Automatic Tombstone Compaction Exists

2015-04-12 Thread Sebastian Estevez
Have you tried user defined compactions via JMX? On Apr 12, 2015 1:40 PM, Anuj Wadehra anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Recently we faced an issue where every repair operation caused addition of hundreds of sstables (CASSANDRA-9146). In order to bring situation under control and make sure reads

Re: Drawbacks of Major Compaction now that Automatic Tombstone Compaction Exists

2015-04-12 Thread Anuj Wadehra
No. Anuj Wadehra On Monday, 13 April 2015 12:23 AM, Sebastian Estevez sebastian.este...@datastax.com wrote: Have you tried user defined compactions via JMX?On Apr 12, 2015 1:40 PM, Anuj Wadehra anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Recently we faced an issue where every repair operation

Drawbacks of Major Compaction now that Automatic Tombstone Compaction Exists

2015-04-12 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Recently we faced an issue where every repair operation caused addition of hundreds of sstables (CASSANDRA-9146). In order to bring situation under control and make sure reads are not impacted, we were left with no option but to run major compaction to ensure that thousands of tiny sstables are

Impact of removing compactions_in_progress folder

2015-04-12 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Often we face errors on Cassandra start regarding unfinished compactions particularly when cassandra was abrupty shut down . Problem gets resolved when we delete /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/compactions_in_progress folder. Does deletion of the folder has any impact onĀ  integrity of data or