Efficient, i'm not totally sure on yet. Would need to do some testing.
A quick mock up should highlight any tradeoffs being made.
I think its been decided we'll test it out by creating a simple client using
thrift
and if results look good we'll have an attempt using hector as a layer.
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From: "Ran Tavory" <ran...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 1:41 PM
To: <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Cassandra for graph data structure
Courtney this certainly sounds interesting and as Nate suggested we're
always looking for valuable contributions.
A few things to keep in mind:
- I'm curious, as Lucas has asked - is it possible to create an
efficient graph API over cassandra and what are the tradeoffs?
- If the API is general enough and the functionality is reusable then
we'd be happy to add it to hector. If not, you can create a library
that uses hector as a layer.
On Friday, September 24, 2010, Courtney Robinson <sa...@live.co.uk> wrote:
?Nate & Lucas thanks for the responses.
Nate, I think it would be asking a bit much to suggest the hector team
implement convenience methods for
a graph representations. But if we went ahead and forked hector, I'd be
sure to contribute back what i can and just release it as another client
or if the final product can be merged with hector...
I'd like thoughts on any features outside my own usecase though so that
we can build it to handle other use cases as well.
Lucas, I understand what you're saying but i've had a quick play with
neo4j and the expense we'd pay for reads offsets a lot of the
setbacks i'd run into using neo4j, not to mention having to learn it...
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From: "Nate McCall" <n...@riptano.com>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 4:14 PM
To: <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Cassandra for graph data structure
My idea however was to fork hector, remove all the stuff i don't need and
turn it into a graph API sitting on top of Cassandra.
We are always looking for ideas and design feedback regarding Hector.
Please feel free to make suggestions or fork and send pull requests.
http://groups.google.com/group/hector-users
