Folks, Simple question ... Assuming my current use case is the ability to log lots of trivial and seemingly useless sports statistics ... I want a user to be able to query / compare .... For example:
--> Show me all baseball players in cheektowaga and ontario, california who have hit a grandslam on tuesdays where it was just a leap year. Each baseball player is represented by a single row in a CF: player_uuid, fullname, hometown, game1, game2, game3, game4 Game's are UUID's that are a reference to another row in the same CF that provides information about that game... location, final score, date (unix timestamp or ISO format) , and statitics which are represented as a new column timestamp:player_uuid I can use PIG, as I understand, to run a query to generate specific information about specific "things" and populate that data back into Cassandra in another CF ... similar to the hypothetical search above....as the information is structured already, i assume PIG is the right tool for the job, but may not be ideal for a web application and enabling ad-hoc queries ... it could take anywhere from 2-....? seconds for that query to generate, populate, and return to the user...? On the other hand, I have started to read about Solr / Solandra / Lucandra .... can this provide similar functionality or better ? or is it more geared towards full text search and indexing ... I don't want to get into the habit of guessing what my potential users want to search for ... trying to think of ways to offload this to them. -- Sasha Dolgy sasha.do...@gmail.com
