On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>

My not so extensive experience has told me that it depends on the kind of
schema you're building.
For something like a Twitter-clone you probably won't run into this unless
you've done some bad planning,
but I definitely would agree with you that it could be(come) a big issue.
I'd love to hear if someone's had problems with this and what their
domain/use was.


>
> /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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