We're very interested in the distributed counter feature as well. Jonathan, when you say early May, is that for a beta release or are you planning on being done with the beta / RC cycle by then? We got burned on the 0.7 beta cycle and implemented way too early, I don't want to make the same mistake again.
Thanks On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > The bad news is that counters are considered too invasive to backport > to 0.7. Original patch was 250KB and there have been several > nontrivial changes since. > > The good news is that 0.8 is planned for early May. > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Ian Holsman <had...@holsman.net> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > apologies in advance, as I haven't been keeping current on what is going > on in cassandra-land for a while. > > > > I noticed that incremental counters have been added to 0.8/Trunk in > CASSANDRA-1072. > > > > I was wondering if this (and supporting patches?) could be easily applied > to 0.74, or if the current trunk is stable enough to use. > > > > I think twitter is using this in their Rainman product.. ideally they > will release that soon as well ;-) > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > --Ian > > > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com >