It's been ~10 days since the cassandra proposal was put up. are people comfortable enough with this to put it to a vote?
I have some personal opinions, but I'll keep them to myself. On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Ian Holsman <li...@holsman.net> wrote: > As the FB guys seem to be a bit busy, I'll take a stab at answering this. > > Firstly cassandra uses a gossip protocol for dynamic addition (and removal) > of servers from the pool. when you bring up a new node you simply configure > a set of seeds for it to initially communicate to and your away. > > It is using eventual consistency (see Warner Vogel's explanation > http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/12/eventually_consistent.html for > an intro to this) to do replication across the pool. I believe this is > different than hbase/hypertable. > > It is more suited to OLTP than to batch environments than hbase/hypertable. > > HTH (and is that it's correct ;-) > Ian > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Otis Gospodnetic < > otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The "distributed storage system for managing structured/unstructured data >> while providing reliability at a massive scale." part sounds kind of like >> HDFS. Would it be possible to describe how Cassandra is different from >> HDFS? Perhaps the best place to do it is under the "Relationships with >> Other Apache Products" section. >> >> Thanks, >> Otis >> -- >> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> > From: Avinash Lakshman <alaksh...@facebook.com> >> > To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> >> > Cc: Prashant Malik <pma...@facebook.com>; Kannan Muthukkaruppan < >> kan...@facebook.com> >> > Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 7:51:28 PM >> > Subject: Cassandra Incubator Proposal >> > >> > Hi Folks >> > >> > Please consider our proposal to move the Cassandra project into the >> Incubation >> > process - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/Cassandra. Please advice, as >> to what >> > else is required for us complete this process. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Avinash >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> >
