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). > > > > > -- > > > 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]> > <javaposse%[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]<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.
