Re: Social network feed/wall question

2009-11-23 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Yes, sort by anything providing time ordering like TimeUUID and then use get_slice with reversed=True to get the most recent. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Kristian Lunde wrote: > Hi Ian > Thanks for your answer, I'll have a look at redis. I think it should be > possible doing this in cassandr

Re: Social network feed/wall question

2009-11-23 Thread Kristian Lunde
Hi Ian Thanks for your answer, I'll have a look at redis. I think it should be possible doing this in cassandra if I sort the columns by timeUUID. Kristian On 22 Nov 2009, at 23:11, Ian Holsman wrote: One of the problems you may face is that the common operation is 'get last X'. You might

Re: Social network feed/wall question

2009-11-22 Thread Ian Holsman
One of the problems you may face is that the common operation is 'get last X'. You might want to look at redis as an alternative as it supports this operation natively. I'm sure the Cassandra experts can help with your schema to optimize it as well --- Sent from my phone Ian Holsman - 703

Social network feed/wall question

2009-11-22 Thread Kristian Lunde
I am currently building a social network application where one of the important features is a feed / wall (Something similar to the Facebook wall). We will have several feeds, one for each profile and one for each group and so on. I have looked into using Cassandra for storing this, but I