Re: What's the best approach to search in Cassandra

2011-06-16 Thread Jake Luciani
Mark, Solandra doesn't use secondary indexes, the functionality is too limited for the lucene api. It maintain's it's own indexes in regular column families. I suggest you look at Solr and decide if this is the functionality you need, Solandra offers the same api but on Cassandra's distributed

Re: What's the best approach to search in Cassandra

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Kerzner
Jake, *You need to maintain a huge number of distinct indexes.* * * *Are we talking about secondary indexes? If yes, this sounds like exactly my problem. There is so little documentation! - but I think that if I read all there is on GitHub, I can probably start using it. * Thank you, Mark On

Re: What's the best approach to search in Cassandra

2011-06-15 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Datastax has pretty sufficient documentation on their site for secondary indexes. On Jun 16, 2011 6:57 AM, Mark Kerzner markkerz...@gmail.com wrote: Jake, *You need to maintain a huge number of distinct indexes.* * * *Are we talking about secondary indexes? If yes, this sounds like exactly

Re: What's the best approach to search in Cassandra

2011-06-04 Thread Paul Loy
I use ElasticSearch myself. Which is a distributed Lucene. http://www.elasticsearch.org On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Mark Kerzner markkerz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to store, say, 10M-100M documents, with each document having say 100 fields, like author, creation date, access date,

What's the best approach to search in Cassandra

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Kerzner
Hi, I need to store, say, 10M-100M documents, with each document having say 100 fields, like author, creation date, access date, etc., and then I want to ask questions like give me all documents whose author is like abc**, and creation date any time in 2010 and access date in 2010-2011, and so

Re: What's the best approach to search in Cassandra

2011-06-03 Thread Jake Luciani
Mark, Check out Solandra. http://github.com/tjake/Solandra On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Mark Kerzner markkerz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to store, say, 10M-100M documents, with each document having say 100 fields, like author, creation date, access date, etc., and then I want to