Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-03 Thread Nico Guba
On 3/30/2011 1:11 AM, Gregori Schmidt wrote * You need to have official client libraries and they need to be programmer friendly. Yes, I know there are nice people maintaining a plethora of different libraries, but you need to man up and face reality: the chaos that is

RE: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-01 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
keyword arguments I would have to shoot myself. -Jeremiah From: Gregori Schmidt [mailto:grokd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:04 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Ditching Cassandra On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Eric Evans eev

RE: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-01 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 09:52 -0500, Jeremiah Jordan wrote: Quick comment on libraries for different languages. The libraries for different languages should almost ALWAYS look different. They should look like what someone using that language expects an API to look like. +1 The language APIs

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-01 Thread Jeremy Hanna
On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Eric Evans wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 09:52 -0500, Jeremiah Jordan wrote: Quick comment on libraries for different languages. The libraries for different languages should almost ALWAYS look different. They should look like what someone using that language

RE: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-01 Thread mcasandra
Where can I read more about CQL? I am assuming it's similar to SQL and drivers like JDBC can be written on top of it. Is that right? -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Ditching-Cassandra-tp6221436p6231654.html Sent from the cassandra

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-01 Thread Moaz Reyad
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Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-04-01 Thread Jeremy Hanna
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Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-31 Thread Edward Capriolo
Gregori, Congrats on writing the fud-liest post of the month award. Firstly if you don't like updates give up on computers and software. Especally give up on anything that has to do with nosql because it is fast evolving. If you think you have a problem with the cassandra api, then what you

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread A J
. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Colin colpcl...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Eric.  I appreciate it. -Original Message- From: Eric Evans [mailto:eev...@rackspace.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:47 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Ditching Cassandra On Tue, 2011

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread Ed Anuff
My concern when I see something like this is it might cause developers on the project to get worried and start to try to solve the wrong problems. Cassandra is not going to be as easy as Mongo, certainly not any time soon. CQL won't do it, although it will help. This isn't a criticism of

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread Gregori Schmidt
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Drew Kutcharian d...@venarc.com wrote: Hi Gregori, I'm about to start a new project and I was considering using MongoDB too, but I just couldn't find a nice way to scale it. Seems like for scaling you need to use the same style as MySQL, having master/slaves

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread Anton Bessonov
Hello Edward, have you a working kudera+spring example with JPA annotations? Best Regards, Anton While I respect your decision... If you are tired of writing code there are solutions around coding everything there are tools like http://code.google.com/p/kundera/ This is verbose:

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread Ashlee Saunders
Thanks for the feedback Gregori, We in Australia are only concerned with solutions as we are a solutions focused organization. With respect to your feedback, you and your team seem to have identified no solutions other than jumping ship. When we subscribed to the 50 or so emails per day, we

Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Gregori Schmidt
hi, After using Cassandra during development for the past 8 months my team and I made the decision to switch from Cassandra to MongoDB this morning. I thought I'd share some thoughts on why we did this and where Cassandra might benefit from improvement. - The API is horrible and it produces

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Drew Kutcharian
Hi Gregori, I'm about to start a new project and I was considering using MongoDB too, but I just couldn't find a nice way to scale it. Seems like for scaling you need to use the same style as MySQL, having master/slaves and replicas, which for us was a deal breaker. We just couldn't see how

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 02:11 +0200, Gregori Schmidt wrote: - The API is horrible and it produces pointlessly verbose code in addition to being utterly confusing. EVERYTHING takes a lot of time to implement with Cassandra, and to be frank, it is incredibly tiring. For this reason alone I

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Jake Luciani
Hi Gregori, What language *were* you using to interact with cassandra? were you unable to find a wrapper API that you found We have discussed adopting the best of client api's in cassandra but we decided it's better for the community to naturally develop them. I think this has also motivated

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Colin
Eric, Seems like the answer to everything is 8. 8 has been very painful. Are you saying that 8 will or not be compatible with 7? If not, would you recommend waiting until 8? We have done an awful lot of work, have an awful lot of work left, and have become very frustrated. Any idea on

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread mcasandra
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RE: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Colin
for the record -Original Message- From: Edward Capriolo [mailto:edlinuxg...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:58 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Ditching Cassandra On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Colin colpcl...@gmail.com wrote: Eric, Seems like the answer to everything is 8

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:56 -0500, Colin wrote: Are you saying that 8 will or not be compatible with 7? You will be able to perform a rolling upgrade from 0.7.x to 0.8. That is to say, you'll be able to upgrade each node one at a time, mixing 0.7 and 0.8 nodes until the upgrade is complete.

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 19:58 -0700, mcasandra wrote: I am also interested in knowing when 8 will be released. We're targeting the week of May 9th. Also, is there someplace where we can read about features that will be relased in 8? Looks like some major changes are going to come out. The

RE: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Colin
Thank you Eric. I appreciate it. -Original Message- From: Eric Evans [mailto:eev...@rackspace.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:47 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Ditching Cassandra On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:56 -0500, Colin wrote: Are you saying that 8