Thanks for the quick response!. I will reconsider the schema.
However, the problem troubles me somehow. How are schema changes supposed to
be done? Should I serialize them, should I halt other cluster operations
while I do the schema change? Is this a known problem with cassandra?
The other question, and I think the more important one for me now: how do I
repair the cluster without loosing data once the schemas diverge? Right now
the only way I have is erase all data and have the cluster start empty.
Should this problem ever happen in production, it's important there's a way
to recover the data.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Dan Hendry dan.hendry.j...@gmail.comwrote:
Uh... don’t create a column family per user. Column families are meant to
be fairly static; conceptually equivalent to a table in a relational
database. Why do you need (or even want) a CF per user? Reconsider your data
model, a single column family with an inverted index for a ‘user’ column is
probably more what you are looking for. Operationally, the fewer CFs the
better.
Dan
*From:* Alejandro Perez [mailto:sp...@indextank.com]
*Sent:* April-15-11 16:39
*To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
*Cc:* Support
*Subject:* Schemas diverging while dynamically creating CF.
Hello,
We're testing cassandra for integration with indextank. In this first try,
we're creating one column family for each user. In practice, on the first
run and for the first few documents (a few 100s), a new CF is created, and a
document is immediately added to it. A few (up to 50) requests of this type
are issued in parallel (for different column families).
The end result, and quite repeatable, is having the cluster split with
different schema versions, and they never agree.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Spike.
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