Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Adding experimental vtables and rules around them

2024-05-31 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Hi, To sum where everyone is coming from: We would like to have features in a stable version of Cassandra which are experimental and are subject to non-backward compatible change. This indicates to me that the feature is not finished and should likely not be included in a stable release. What

Re: [DISCUSS] CEP-40: Data Transfer Using Cassandra Sidecar for Live Migrating Instances

2024-04-15 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Thanks for the proposal. I second Jordan that we need more abstraction in (1), e.g. most cloud provider allow for disk snapshots and starting nodes from a snapshot which would be a good mechanism if you find yourself there. German From: Jordan West Sent:

Re: [DISCUSS] NULL handling and the unfrozen collection issue

2024-03-20 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Hi, +1 I like doing it the SQL way. This makes sense to me. Now, in Cassandra setting a column to null means deleting it and if all​ columns in a row are null the row is deleted. This might be another edge case... German From: Benjamin Lerer Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Discuss] Generic Purpose Rate Limiter in Cassandra

2024-01-17 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Jaydeep, I concur with Stefan that extensibility of this should be a design goal: * It should be easy to add additional metrics (e.g. write queue depth) and decision logic * There should be a way to interact with other systems to signal a resource need which then could kick off

Re: Welcome Maxim Muzafarov as Cassandra Committer

2024-01-08 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Congrats!! From: David Capwell Sent: Monday, January 8, 2024 11:03 AM To: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Welcome Maxim Muzafarov as Cassandra Committer Congrats! On Jan 8, 2024, at 10:53 AM, Jacek Lewandowski wrote: Congratulations Maxim, well deserved, it's a

Re: Harry in-tree (Forked from "Long tests, Burn tests, Simulator tests, Fuzz tests - can we clarify the diffs?")

2023-12-22 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 From: Patrick McFadin Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 9:12 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Harry in-tree (Forked from "Long tests, Burn tests, Simulator tests, Fuzz tests - can we clarify the diffs?") It was great having some more

Re: Future direction for the row cache and OHC implementation

2023-12-20 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Hi, we once did some extensive performance testing on the row cache (motivated by some hardware accelerator we were hoping to introduce) but could only find improvements in highly contrived scenarios - has been a while since then so fresh eyes are good but I think we will still arrive at the

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-beta1

2023-11-30 Thread German Eichberger via dev
I don't think outside people will know the distinction between alpha and beta - for them anything which isn't GA doesn't get deployed (and even then they might wait another year or two). People following this mailing list would lilkey know that 5.0-beta-1 is pretty close to 5.0-alpha-3 -- so

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSSION] CEP-38: CQL Management API

2023-11-20 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Hi, >From a cloud provider perspective we expose the storage port to customers for >Hybrid scenarios (e.g. fusing on-prem Cassandra with in-cloud Cassandra) so >would prefer an extra port or a socket. Thanks, German From: Dinesh Joshi Sent: Friday, November

Re: [DISCUSSION] CEP-38: CQL Management API

2023-11-15 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Hi Maxim, We have adopted/forked the agent part of the https://github.com/k8ssandra/management-api-for-apache-cassandra project which aims to do similar things. I especially like how they have a local database socket where a sidecar can easily access cassandra and execute cql commands without

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-alpha2

2023-10-31 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 Heck, yeah, we already tested the branch (build ourselves) and it works great so far. From: Mick Semb Wever Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 1:43 PM Cc: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-alpha2 > The vote will be open for 72

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-27 Thread German Eichberger via dev
ion on those big projects. Le jeu. 26 oct. 2023 à 21:35, German Eichberger via dev mailto:dev@cassandra.apache.org>> a écrit : +1 to Maxim's idea Like Stefan my assumption was that we would get some version of TCM + ACCORD in 5.0 but it wouldn't be ready for production use. My own test

Re: Push TCM (CEP-21) and Accord (CEP-15) to 5.1 (and cut an immediate 5.1-alpha1)

2023-10-26 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 to Maxim's idea Like Stefan my assumption was that we would get some version of TCM + ACCORD in 5.0 but it wouldn't be ready for production use. My own testing and conversations at Community over Code in Halifax confirmed this. From this perspective as disappointing as TCM+ACCORD slipping

Hacktoberfest?

2023-10-06 Thread German Eichberger via dev
All, It's that time of year where the Hacktoberfest happens again:https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/#maintainers We would need to mark our repo and also review the contributions timely so the participants can earn their T-Shirt (?). As Ekaterina pointed out October is also the month

Re: [VOTE] Accept java-driver

2023-10-03 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 Really excited about this as well. From: Mick Semb Wever Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 2:16 AM Cc: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] Accept java-driver The vote will be open for 72 hours (or longer). Votes by PMC members are considered binding. A vote

Re: [DISCUSS] CEP-36: A Configurable ChannelProxy to alias external storage locations

2023-09-28 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Super excited about this as well. Happy to help test with Azure and any other way needed. Thanks, German From: guo Maxwell Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 7:38 PM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] CEP-36: A Configurable

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Add JVector as a dependency for CEP-30

2023-09-22 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 with taking it to legal As anyone else I enjoy speculating about legal stuff and I think for jars you probably need possible deniability aka no paper trail that we knowingly... but that horse is out of the barn. So really interested in what legal says  If you can stomach non Java here is

Re: [DISCUSS] Add JVector as a dependency for CEP-30

2023-09-20 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 I am biased because DiskANN is from Microsoft Research but it's a good library/algorithm From: Mike Adamson Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 8:58 AM To: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] [DISCUSS] Add JVector as a dependency for CEP-30 You don't often get email

Re: [DISCUSS] Add Jepsen's Elle as a test dependency for Accord / Paxos

2023-09-15 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 From: David Capwell Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 3:44 PM To: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] [DISCUSS] Add Jepsen's Elle as a test dependency for Accord / Paxos For validation of Paxos and Accord 2 different consistency verifiers were created:

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-alpha1

2023-08-25 Thread German Eichberger via dev
I concur. Those are major features... From: C. Scott Andreas Sent: Friday, August 25, 2023 9:06 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 5.0-alpha1 You don't often get email from sc...@paradoxica.net. Learn why this

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Discuss] ​​CEP-35: Add PIP support for CQLSH

2023-08-11 Thread German Eichberger via dev
I second Brandon. There is a group of people who expect to ssh into a node and then be able to run the "right" cqlsh instead of dealing with different cqlsh versions on their workstation/laptop... German From: Brandon Williams Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 7:29

Re: [Discuss] Repair inside C*

2023-07-25 Thread German Eichberger via dev
ny way to have a repair solution adopted inside Cassandra itself, please let me know. Happy to help! Yours Faithfully, Jaydeep On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 1:44 PM German Eichberger via dev mailto:dev@cassandra.apache.org>> wrote: All, We had a brief discussion in [2] about the Uber article [1] whe

[Discuss] Repair inside C*

2023-07-24 Thread German Eichberger via dev
All, We had a brief discussion in [2] about the Uber article [1] where they talk about having integrated repair into Cassandra and how great that is. I expressed my disappointment that they didn't work with the community on that (Uber, if you are listening time to make amends ) and it turns

Re: [DISCUSS] Using ACCP or tc-native by default

2023-07-20 Thread German Eichberger via dev
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Re: Changing the output of tooling between majors

2023-07-14 Thread German Eichberger via dev
, at 9:08 AM, German Eichberger via dev wrote: Let's take this discussion in a different direction: If we add a --legacy ​ argument where we are supporting an old version for those who need/want it but have the (breaking) changes on the default this feels like a compromise - and then we can depreca

Re: [Discuss] CQLSH confusion

2023-07-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Forgot the references: [1] https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/CJZLTM05A/p1686771286554899 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18666 From: German Eichberger via dev Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 10:14 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject

[Discuss] CQLSH confusion

2023-07-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
All, I am working with clusters with different Cassandra versions and have been using some cqlsh which "just worked". Recently I wanted to use virtual tables and ran into [1]. After that I filed [2]. Brandon states that "do not use a cqlsh that is from a different version than what is

Re: Changing the output of tooling between majors

2023-07-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Let's take this discussion in a different direction: If we add a --legacy ​ argument where we are supporting an old version for those who need/want it but have the (breaking) changes on the default this feels like a compromise - and then we can deprecate the legacy format without impacting

Re: [DISCUSS] Conducting a User Survey

2023-07-11 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Same. Great idea. How ill the results be published? Thanks, German From: C. Scott Andreas Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 7:41 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Cc: dev@cassandra.apache.org ; market...@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS]

Re: CASSANDRA-18654 - start publishing CQLSH to PyPI as part of the release process

2023-07-10 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Same - really appreciate those efforts and also welcome the upstreaming and release automation... German From: Jeff Widman Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2023 1:44 PM To: Max C. Cc: dev@cassandra.apache.org ; Brad Schoening Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: CASSANDRA-18654 -

Re: [DISCUSS] Using ACCP or tc-native by default

2023-06-23 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 to ACCP - we love performance. From: David Capwell Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2023 4:21 PM To: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Using ACCP or tc-native by default +1 to ACCP On Jun 22, 2023, at 3:05 PM, C. Scott Andreas wrote: +1 for ACCP and can attest

Re: [VOTE] CEP-8 Datastax Drivers Donation

2023-06-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+ 1 Great to see this moving forward! From: Abe Ratnofsky Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 10:09 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] CEP-8 Datastax Drivers Donation +1 (nb) On Jun 13, 2023, at 09:23, Andrés de la Peña wrote:  +1 On

Re: Re: [VOTE] CEP-30 ANN Vector Search

2023-05-25 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+ 1 I am seeing ANN Vector Search pop up in every database... From: Patrick McFadin Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2023 11:29 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] CEP-30 ANN Vector Search +1 Love the buzz this creating with new users. Thanks

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: (CVE only) support for 3,11 beyond published EOL

2023-04-14 Thread German Eichberger via dev
All, What does it mean to be OpenSource? For me the community is developers/maintainers who work on Cassandra, operators who run Cassandra, and developers who write applications which use Cassandra. We all need to work together to make Cassandra successful - and we need to listen to each other

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: (CVE only) support for 3,11 beyond published EOL

2023-04-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Josh, We already have an understanding and precedence in place that CVEs on the previous unmaintained branch are addressed and released. Correct me if I'm wrong German, but the question I got from your email was effectively "If we consider formalizing our

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0.9 - SECOND ATTEMPT

2023-04-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
+1 (Recently learned anyone can vote so using my new discovered powers) From: Josh McKenzie Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 6:59 AM To: dev Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0.9 - SECOND ATTEMPT +1 On Thu, Apr 13, 2023, at 3:17 AM,

(CVE only) support for 3,11 beyond published EOL

2023-04-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
All, There have been several discussions on slack [1], [2] to support 3.11 beyond the date stated on the web [3] which is May-July 23 and given it's April that's an unlikely date. Given that there are still a sizable number of users on 3.11 in [2] we talked about a CVE only support for some

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Welcome our next PMC Chair Josh McKenzie

2023-03-31 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Thanks Mick - working with you has been a blast an I hop we can continue! Welcome and congrats Josh!! From: Dinesh Joshi Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 8:31 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Welcome our next PMC Chair Josh McKenzie Thank you

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Next release date

2023-03-03 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Hi, We shouldn't release just for releases sake. Are there enough new features and are they working well enough (quality!). The big feature from our perspective for 5.0 is ACCORD (CEP-15) and I would advocate to delay until this has sufficient quality to be in production. Just because

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Cassandra CI Status 2023-01-07

2023-02-13 Thread German Eichberger via dev
First, one of my learnings was that a ticket assigned to an issue in one branch of butler doesn't carry to another. So always search. New failures from build lead week 7: I created a Jira filter for finding the tickets I created:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Welcome Patrick McFadin as Cassandra Committer

2023-02-09 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Congratulations! Surprised Patrick wasn't a committer already... From: Benjamin Lerer Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 9:58 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Welcome Patrick McFadin as Cassandra Committer The PMC members are pleased to announce

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Evolving governance in the Cassandra Ecosystem

2023-01-30 Thread German Eichberger via dev
Great news indeed. I am wondering what it would take to include projects everyone is using like medusa, reaper, cassandra-ldap, etc. as a subproject. Thanks, German From: Francisco Guerrero Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 9:46 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org

Re: [EXTERNAL] [DISCUSS] Taking another(other(other)) stab at performance testing

2023-01-03 Thread German Eichberger via dev
All, This is a great idea and I am looking forward to it. Having dedicated consistent hardware is a good way to find regressions in the code but orthogonal to that is "certifying" new hardware to run with Cassandra, e.g. is there a performance regression when running on AMD? ARM64? What about