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).
>
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