We're evaluating Cassandra too. However, the requirement to manually keep the "schema" in sync across nodes, seems like a big issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-44
Not so in practice? /Casper On Mar 2, 11:50 pm, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote: > In Akka (www.akkasource.org) we have a Cassandra backend for our persistence > API as well as a DSLish Scala coating over the Thrift Java interface. > (supporting connection pooling etc) > > http://doc.akkasource.org/persistence > > All in all Cassandra is an interesting product with impressive capabilities > being just at version 0.5.1! > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Michael Neale <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Cassandra - the non SQL distributed database. > > > Recently twitter spoke about how they switched onto it (from heavily > > sharded MySQL). Note that it originated at facebook. So we have 2 of > > the biggest (and probably most important) social network platforms of > > our times depending on it now, and it is written in java - I guess > > there is life in the old JVM yet for "systems" programming. > > >http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/ > > >http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/407159447/cassandra-twitter-an-interv... > > > Would love to hear from people who use it/have played with it etc.. > > (it seems in most use cases I hear, the clients are non java apps - > > using Thrift). > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > Viktor Klang > | "A complex system that works is invariably > | found to have evolved from a simple system > | that worked." - John Gall > > Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org > Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
