Re: Newbie question about writer/reader consistency

2011-12-29 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
So you can do this with Cassandra, but you need more logic in your code. Basically, you get the last safe number, M, then get N..M, if there are any gaps, you try again reading those numbers. As long as you are not over writing data, and you only update the last safe number after a successful

Re: Newbie question about writer/reader consistency

2011-12-27 Thread R. Verlangen
You might consider a hybrid solution with a transactional db for all data that should be ACID complient and Cassandra for the huge amounts of data you want to store. 2011/12/27 Radim Kolar h...@sendmail.cz makes me feel disappointed about consistency in Cassandra, but I wonder is there is a

Re: Newbie question about writer/reader consistency

2011-12-27 Thread Radim Kolar
makes me feel disappointed about consistency in Cassandra, but I wonder is there is a way to work around it. cassandra is not suitable for this kind of programs. CouchDB is slightly better, it has transactions but no locking and i am not sure if transaction isolation is supported now. mongodb

Re: Newbie question about writer/reader consistency

2011-12-27 Thread Radim Kolar
But is there any way of implementing minimum required ACID subset on top of Cassandra? try this, its nosql ACID compliant. I haven't tested this, it will have most likely pretty slow writes and lot of bugs like any other oracle application.

Newbie question about writer/reader consistency

2011-12-26 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hello everybody. I am developer of financial-related application, and I'm currently evaluating various nosql databases for our current goal: storing various views which show state of the system in different aspects after each transaction. The write load seems to be bigger than typical SQL