This sounds really cool! I'd be happy to help out as needed, in particular with any design or implementation issues that may come up.
(Thanks to Michael Kjellman for bringing this to my attention!) Peter ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com>To: "dev@cassandra.apache.org" <dev@cassandra.apache.org>Cc: Yogesh Rane < yog2...@gmail.com>, Diksha Arora <dikshai...@gmail.com>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:26:36 -0500Subject: Re: Cassandra + RAMP transactionsThat would be great! By all means, it's open to work on. Pleasecomment on the ticket if you get stuck, have questions etc. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Jatin Ganhotra<jatin.ganho...@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi,>> We are a team of 3 graduate students in Computer Science at University of> Illinois at Urbana Champaign.> We were thinking of adding support for RAMP transactions to Cassandra, as> part of our Advanced Distributed Systems project work.>> I have looked at the associated ticket that Tupspin mentioned in the> previous email, and it appears that there is a blocking issue mentioned in> the discussion.>> To be clear, using non-unique ts as RAMP id is broken, but I agree that we> should proceed here with the assumption that we'll solve the unique ts> problem; if that doesn't work out we can figure out a plan B.>> I'd like to get a green-signal from the developer community. Also, any> information that would help us such as internal class hierarchy, other> implementation design details of Cassandra and your feedback on the> blocking issue that I mentioned.>> Thanks> —> Jatin Ganhotra> Graduate Student, Computer Science> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign> http://jatinganhotra.com> http://linkedin.com/in/jatinganhotra>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:51 PM, < tups...@tupshin.com> wrote:>>> Hi Jatin,>>>> I believe there is a lot of interest in developing RAMP transactions for>> Cassandra, but no concrete activity yet.>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7056>>>> -Tupshin>>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 11:30 PM, Jatin Ganhotra wrote:>> > Hi,>> >>> > Please forgive me if this is not the right forum for this query.>> > I recently read an article where Jonathan Ellis mentioned that ePaxos and>> > RAMP transactions should be soon added to Cassandra.>> >>> > Is there any work going on in this direction?>> >>> > Thanks>> > —>> > Jatin Ganhotra>> > Graduate Student, Computer Science>> > University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign>> > http://jatinganhotra.com>> > http://linkedin.com/in/jatinganhotra>> --http://twitter.com/tjake