Re: problem with running simple example using cassandra-cli with 0.6.0-beta2

2010-03-12 Thread Eric Evans
=age, value=42, timestamp=1268408468895) > Returned 3 results. > > With 0.5.1 using Standard1 does show a human-readable column as > documented > in the Wiki. Right you are, my mistake. This changed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-661 (which occurred between 0.5 and 0.6). > Not sure which one is the correct behavior here. The current behavior is correct. I'll update the examples to avoid future confusion. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: client.get_count query

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
e horizontal scalability. Is this true? Are you able to discuss the specifics? What you're storing, how much of it you're storing, and maybe most importantly, what you need to query? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: client.get_count query

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
on has been moved into the row key. This doesn't sound right; either there is a problem with your datamodel, or your choice of datastore. How many columns are we talking about here? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: client.get_count query

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
27; row end = 'TOWZ') No, there isn't. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: cassandra 0.6.0 beta 2 download contains beta 1?

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-850 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: problem with running simple example using cassandra-cli with 0.6.0-beta2

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
s the same for 0.5.1 too. If you haven't made any changes to the default config, try using Standard2 as the column family and you'll see a human-readable column name as expected (Standard2 uses a UTF8Type comparator). The wiki page has sample output that is confusing, (it's probably cut-and-paste from a time when Standard1 used an ASCII or UTF8 comparator), we should probably fix that. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Effective allocation of multiple disks

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
and you don't strictly need the extra IO, then multiple data directories might be preferable to other forms of aggregation (it's certainly simpler than say a volume manager). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: cassandra 0.6.0 beta 2 download contains beta 1?

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:39 -0500, Vick Khera wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > >> apache-cassandra-0.6.0-beta1.jar > >> apache-cassandra-0.6.0-beta2.jar > > > > Ugh, my bad. I must have failed to `clean' in between the abo

Re: cassandra 0.6.0 beta 2 download contains beta 1?

2010-03-10 Thread Eric Evans
ouple of bytes worth of version metadata, so it really wouldn't matter in this context. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: exception with python client

2010-03-10 Thread Eric Evans
y", > line 155, in read > File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-i386/egg/thrift/transport/TSocket.py", > line 94, in read > thrift.transport.TTransport.TTransportException: None I believe this simply means that the read didn't return a response. Start by checking the cassandra logs to see if there are any exceptions, and double check your connection parameters, network setup, etc. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: finding Cassandra servers

2010-03-03 Thread Eric Evans
d be to use a short-list of well-known nodes (discovered via round-robin DNS for example), to obtain a current node list and distribute among them. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: finding Cassandra servers

2010-03-03 Thread Eric Evans
x27;t yet encountered. I don't see it, but then maybe I'm just thick. Either way, if you think this is important, the onus is on you to demonstrate the merit of your idea and contrib/ or a github project is one way to do that (the latter has the advantage of not needing to rely on anyone else). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Cassandra and Spring & Terracotta

2010-02-26 Thread Eric Evans
I don't see how a useful comparison could be made. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: import data into cassandra

2010-02-24 Thread Eric Evans
le cassandra version (0.5.0). As Jonathan stated, you're best bet is to tackle this using the Thrift interface first. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Performance with Multiple Node Vs Single Node

2010-02-18 Thread Eric Evans
going on regarding node intercommunication ?? I'd start with your basic, garden-variety troubleshooting, i.e. ping, traceroute, transfer speed, etc. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

[VOTE RESULTS] was: [VOTE] Graduation

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Evans
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 15:11 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: > I propose a vote for Cassandra's graduation to a top-level project. > > We'll leave this open for 72 hours, and assuming it passes, we can then > take it to a vote with the Incubator PMC. The vote is now closed wi

RE: [VOTE] Graduation

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Evans
ASF's guiding principles[1]. Unless you are arguing that the code is abnormally buggy, and that this is the direct result of a dysfunctional and unhealthy community that will both embarrass the ASF, and embroil it in costly legal disputes, before disintegrating to leave Cassandra as an obscur

[VOTE] Graduation

2010-01-25 Thread Eric Evans
uation to a top-level project. We'll leave this open for 72 hours, and assuming it passes, we can then take it to a vote with the Incubator PMC. +1 from me! [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.general/24427 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com X. Establish the Apac

Re: insert and batch_insert should update?

2010-01-21 Thread Eric Evans
batch_insert() all have a required timestamp member (which people generally set to the current time). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: insert and batch_insert should update?

2010-01-21 Thread Eric Evans
y what's expected. Provided that the second write uses a higher timestamp, yes. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Graduation

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 12:56 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: > I think we demonstrably meet the requirements; I believe we are ready > to graduate. > > What does everyone else thing? The response to this was quite favorable and consensus seems to be that we are ready. How many people had

Re: Can't Run: "Address already in use" Error

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Evans
e. So... don't start another one. :) Use the init script to start and stop cassandra, (/etc/init.d/cassandra). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Graduation

2010-01-07 Thread Eric Evans
open, positive, and inclusive atmosphere * release software according to ASF guidelines I think we demonstrably meet the requirements; I believe we are ready to graduate. What does everyone else thing? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cassandra.html -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: TimeUUID Partitioning

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 23:31 +0200, Richard Grossman wrote: > So my question might be stupid but why the timeUUID will distribute > better ? It won't, it's the same problem either way. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: TimeUUID Partitioning

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Evans
e date/time, and not to any of the others. Imagine that you have 5 nodes and they are partitioned: A -> 2009 B -> 2010 C -> 2011 D -> 2012 E -> 2013 Any writes occurring between now and Jan 1, 2010 will go to node A, at which point all writes will go to node B for the 365 day

Re: TimeUUID Partitioning

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Evans
o provide very poor distribution properties, (though so does date-based strings and OrderPreservingPartioner). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: BUILD FAILURE

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Evans
e enough for the special features (the stuff above and beyond what ant is providing), to the invest the effort in learning it. 2. Maven triggers my gag reflex. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: BUILD FAILURE

2009-12-21 Thread Eric Evans
ror: error reading > /home/thilanga/.m2/repository/javax/mail/mail/1.4/mail-1.4.jar; error > in > opening zip file For what it's worth, I'm seeing the same. Stick with ant for now and hopefully someone will figure it out and submit a patch. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: How to check if nodes are added in ring or not?

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Evans
se public IP address of instances. > 2) Also nodeprobe "cluster" is removed in 0.5. Can you please suggest > how to check if nodes are added in ring or not? Have you checked out Circuit under contrib/? https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12421328/circuit.png -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

RE: read latency creaping up

2009-12-14 Thread Eric Evans
being said, the performance really becomes bad after a while. Have a look at the following thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/1402 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Evans
ss something back. As I said, it allows backends > to > maintain state when it makes sense to do so and can alleviate the > problem of redundant auth queries in the future. If not for SSO via shared-state between nodes, then for what? Can you give a tangible example of "when it makes sense to do so"? Are you sure this isn't YAGNI? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:27 -0600, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:14:53 -0600 Eric Evans wrote: > > EE> Did you maybe mean...? AuthenticationRequest required for the > EE> method (has to be), but the map is optional? > > Either way will work. With your

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Evans
cationRequest auth_request) throws (1:AuthenticationException aux, 2:AuthorizationException azx), ... } i.e. AuthenticationRequest required for the method (has to be), but the map is optional? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:52 -0600, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:58:50 -0600 Eric Evans > wrote: > > EE> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:38 -0600, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > >> I disagree, why would you want to forbid switching the keyspace? > That's >

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:38 -0600, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:23:47 -0600 Eric Evans wrote: > > EE> I'm personally not a big fan of the setKeyspace()/getKeyspace() idea. > EE> Getting rid of the keyspace argument makes sense because the keyspace is >

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Evans
n one keyspace is a corner case IMO, but its one that can be accommodated by opening another connection. Also, I don't know how others feel, but I'm not comfortable committing anything that would be a candidate for 0.5 that isn't more fully baked at this point. So I'd rather see something that is at least minimally useful targeted for 0.5+1 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Exception in Cassandra-cli tool

2009-11-23 Thread Eric Evans
at > org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliClient.executeCLIStmt(CliClient.java:72) > at > org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.processCLIStmt(CliMain.java:103) > at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:143) > > any idea what's going on ? Maybe you aren't connected? You can launch

Re: cassandra over hbase

2009-11-23 Thread Eric Evans
ncy and availability. * No single points of failure, (every node is identical). * Linear scalability (i.e 20 nodes gives you 2x what 10 does, etc). There are some comparisons out there, some more reasonable than others, I recommend this one: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/11/09/nosql-ecosystem/ -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Problem with cassdict import

2009-11-23 Thread Eric Evans
gt; 17 > > ImportError: cannot import name ColumnOrSuperColum I've never used cassdict, but this looks to me like you either haven't generated the thrift code for cassandra, or it is not in your PYTHONPATH. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: configuration file comments on wiki

2009-11-13 Thread Eric Evans
he > >> config file settings on the wiki. I'd rather move that into the > >> config file itself though rather than have it get out of date when we > >> update things. (E.g. moving from 0.4 to 0.5 RSN.) > >> > >> I'd appreciate it if you could submit a patch for the xml instead. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: [VOTE] Website

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 16:10 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: > The current website is quite ugly, and I don't know about you, but I'm > itching to put the new project logo to use, so I'd like to propose > publishing http://cassandra.deadcafe.org (to > http://incubator.apache.org

Re: bandwidth limiting Cassandra's replication and access control

2009-11-12 Thread Eric Evans
re. > > Thanks. I actually like the Java builder too (I have automatic builds > turned on) but the Ant builder was really simple to set up and use. Be careful. Overlapping builders could result in some very confusing behavior. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: [VOTE] Website

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 16:10 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: > The current website is quite ugly, and I don't know about you, but I'm > itching to put the new project logo to use, so I'd like to propose > publishing http://cassandra.deadcafe.org (to > http://incubator.apache.org

[VOTE] Website

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Evans
ould be considered a placeholder. Still, it's much better than what we currently have and we can incrementally improve it as we go forward. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-231 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: bandwidth limiting Cassandra's replication and access control

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Evans
New", and add an Ant Builder (the defaults should be OK). You'll probably want to disable Java Builder while you're there. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Apt repository move

2009-10-23 Thread Eric Evans
r the inconvenience. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

[CLOSED][VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-08 Thread Eric Evans
| 13| 0| 0| 0| 18| 13| 22| 0| 0| 13| 13| 13| 13 291| 14| 0| 0| 0| 17| 14| 22| 0| 0| 14| 13| 16| 13 Winner is 598. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com <> OPENSTV_DIR = OpenSTV-1.5 all: ballots.txt: sed -s "s/ # .\+//g" ballots.raw > bal

Re: maven reository

2009-10-07 Thread Eric Evans
even practical since we have dependencies that can't be satisfied through maven repositories either (thrift for example). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: [VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-05 Thread Eric Evans
allot }~~ You have three entries rated "4"; can you please resubmit with unique rankings? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: [VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-05 Thread Eric Evans
] NOTA > ~~~~~~{ Ballot }~~ -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: [VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-05 Thread Eric Evans
[ 6 ] 369 http://99designs.com/contests/28940/entries/369 > > > [ 8 ] 478 http://99designs.com/contests/28940/entries/478 > > > [ 10 ] 576 http://99designs.com/contests/28940/entries/576 > > > [ 7 ] 598 http://99designs.com/contests/28940/entries/598 > > > [ ] NOTA > > > ~~{ Ballot }~~ -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: [VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-05 Thread Eric Evans
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 10:12 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > ~~{ Ballot }~~ > [ 1] 2http://99designs.com/contests/28940/entries/002 > [ 2] 30 http://99designs.com/contests/28940/entries/030 > [ 3] 32 http://99designs.com/co

[VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-05 Thread Eric Evans
mitted&filterby=highrating [1] http://www.openstv.org -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Logo Design Contest

2009-10-02 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:13 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:39 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > > A logo design contest is now underway at 99designs.com. > > > > http://99designs.com/contests/28940 > > > > The contest brief can be found here: > &

Re: Logo Design Contest

2009-09-30 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:39 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > A logo design contest is now underway at 99designs.com. > > http://99designs.com/contests/28940 > > The contest brief can be found here: > http://99designs.com/contests/28940/brief. If you're worried that it's

Announcement: 0.4.0

2009-09-26 Thread Eric Evans
GES.txt [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=12310865&fixfor=12313862&resolution=1&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: triggers in cassandra

2009-09-25 Thread Eric Evans
x27;t. Someone was working on this at some point, but it wasn't going anywhere so it got removed (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=806267). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Your Feedback Needed (was: Logo Design Contest)

2009-09-24 Thread Eric Evans
browse/CASSANDRA-231?focusedCommentId=12759241&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12759241 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Your Feedback Needed (was: Logo Design Contest)

2009-09-24 Thread Eric Evans
ave a look at the submissions, and leave some comments. Thanks! -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Logo Design Contest

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Evans
on the contest page and/or let me know right away. I encourage everyone to bookmark the page, to check it frequently, and be sure to leave plenty of feedback as designs are submitted! Thanks, -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Debian apt repo

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Evans
ll of the dependencies are packaged, and of those, thrift is the biggest undertaking. I've filed an ITP[0] for that, and made some progress[1], but there is still much to do. Help is appreciated. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524135 [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/eevans/thrift

Debian apt repo

2009-09-21 Thread Eric Evans
everyone a little time. Sorry for the inconvenience; let me know if you encounter any problems. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Got Logo?

2009-09-21 Thread Eric Evans
winner that is no ones first choice, but is the least disagreeable to the majority. Wikipedia has a decent page on condorcet voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method), and there is at least one online application that we could use (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html). What does

Re: Configuring multiple nodes

2009-09-21 Thread Eric Evans
always binds to all interfaces for me. If that's not what others see, than I wonder what determines that behavior. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Configuring multiple nodes

2009-09-20 Thread Eric Evans
1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport > -j ACCEPT Assuming that you are using defaults, and you want to use nodeprobe (or any other jmx client) remotely then you'll also need to open tcp/8080. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Got Logo?

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Evans
t up a bounty? If so, how much? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Eric Evans
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:33 -0700, Chris Goffinet wrote: > Don't know what you're talking about, I am still rolling with CVS. Oh, what a twisted sense of humor you have Chris. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Eric Evans
is probably a good idea. Either README.txt or a (prominent )page on the wiki (which I guess would be easier to keep to date). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: Cassandra package for Debian

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Evans
testing of cassandra, and it works like a champ! :) -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Cassandra package for Debian

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Evans
/ This Works For Me and should install on unstable, testing, and stable but it's preliminary and not well tested. If you encounter problems, please let me know. [1] http://debconf9.debconf.org -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: thrift+cassandra on RedHat 5...

2009-07-22 Thread Eric Evans
interface? If so, that is probably not going to work. If you haven't set it up for IPv6, then we need to figure out how an InetAddress.getLocalHost() returned "0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1". -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: keys and column names cannot be utf-8

2009-07-21 Thread Eric Evans
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 09:18 -0700, mobiledream...@gmail.com wrote: > Is there any timeline on when commit 185 will be done as the utf8 > error still exists 185 was committed yesterday. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-185 -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Announcing 0.3.0

2009-07-20 Thread Eric Evans
process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

Re: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'

2009-07-20 Thread Eric Evans
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 09:46 +1000, Ian Holsman wrote: > shouldn't regeneration of the interface be part of the build process? As a convenience, there is an ant target called "gen-thrift-py", but it's left to users to run since we are not checking generated python into subv

Re: one server or more servers?

2009-07-16 Thread Eric Evans
servers r picking up the ring - > all 4 servers are on the seeds! > > how do i make them pick the other 4 in the ring should listen be made > blank > right now listen addres is 0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0 You can't do this, it won't work. See http://wiki.apache.org/c

Re: A few issues with the latest code

2009-06-28 Thread Eric Evans
til.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor > $Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) As Michael pointed out in another mail, this has been reported in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-260. Expect to see this fixed soon. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com

moving to framed transport (client breakage inevitable)

2009-06-19 Thread Eric Evans
peace. :) -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com