For what it's worth, my team would very much like to see counters in trunk.
Right now we're trying to think of ways to implement counters by inserting columns and counting the sizes of slices, and it seems difficult to do it quickly and correctly at scale, even with low consistency. -Dave On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Colin Taylor <colin.tay...@gmail.com>wrote: > Would it help prioritizing if silent majority chimed in if keen on > this functionality which is so key to large scale analytical apps? > in which case : > > +1 > > Although perhaps I should encourage signing up on jira and vote there. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Signup!default.jspa<https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Signup%21default.jspa> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1072 > > [We intend counting various attributes of the 100 million documents > coming through our system a day] > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Kelvin Kakugawa <kakug...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> I think the underlying unanswered question is whether #1072 is a niche > >> feature or whether it should be brought into trunk. > >> > > > > This should not be an unanswered question! #1072 should be considered > > essential, as it enables numerous use cases that currently require > > bolting something like memcache or redis onto the side to handle > > counters. > > > > +100000000 on getting this into trunk ASAP. > > > > > > b > > >
