Yes Eric, I understood :)

On 30 January 2014 23:00, Eric Redmond <eredm...@basho.com> wrote:

> For clarity, I was responding to Jason's assertion that Riak shouldn't be
> used as a cache, not to your specific issue, Edgar.
>
> Eric
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> On Jan 30, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Edgar Veiga <edgarmve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I think that you are making some kind of confusion here... I'm not using
> riak for cache purposes, thats exactly the opposite! Riak is my end
> persistence system, I need to store the documents in a strong, secure,
> available and consistent place. That's riak.
>
> It's like I've said before, just make an analogy with the linux file cache
> system. Node.js workers simulate that in-memory cache, php applications
> write and read from them and when something is dirty, it's persisted to
> riak...
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
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> On 30 January 2014 22:26, Eric Redmond <eredm...@basho.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually people use Riak as a distributed cache all the time. In fact,
>> many customers use it exclusively as a cache system. Not all backends write
>> to disk. Riak supports a main memory backend[1], complete with size limits
>> and TTL.
>>
>> Eric
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>> [1]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/advanced/backends/memory/
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>> On Jan 30, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Jason Campbell <xia...@xiaclo.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure Riak is the best fit for this.  Riak is great for
>> applications where it is the source of data, and has very strong
>> consistency when used in this way.  You are using it as a cache, where Riak
>> will be significantly slower than other cache solutions.  Especially since
>> you say that each worker will have a set of documents it is responsible
>> for.  Something like a local memcache or redis would likely suit this use
>> case just as well, but do it much faster with less overhead.
>>
>> Riak will guarantee 3 writes to disk (by default), where something like
>> memcache or redis will stay in memory, and if local, won't have network
>> latency either.  In the worst case where a node goes offline, the real data
>> can be pulled from the backend again, so it isn't a big deal.  It will also
>> simplify your application, because node.js can always request from cache
>> and not worry about the speed, instead of maintaining it's own cache layer.
>>
>> I'm as happy as the next person on this list to see Riak being used for
>> all sorts of uses, but I believe in the right tool for the right job.
>>  Unless there is something I don't understand, Riak is probably the wrong
>> tool.  It will work, but there is other software that will work much better.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>> Jason Campbell
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Edgar Veiga" <edgarmve...@gmail.com>
>> To: "Russell Brown" <russell.br...@me.com>
>> Cc: "riak-users" <riak-users@lists.basho.com>
>> Sent: Friday, 31 January, 2014 3:20:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: last_write_wins
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll try to explain this the best I can, although it's a simples
>> architecture I'm not describing it in my native language :)
>>
>>
>> I have a set of node.js workers (64 for now) that serve as a
>> cache/middleware layer for a dozen of php applications. Each worker deals
>> with a set of documents (it's not a distributed cache system). Each worker
>> updates the documents in memory, and tags them as dirty (just like OS file
>> cache), and from time to time (for now, it's a 5 seconds window interval),
>> a persister module will deal with the persistence of those dirty documents
>> to riak.
>> If the document isn't in memory, it will be fetched from riak.
>>
>>
>> If you want document X, you need to ask to the corresponding worker
>> dealing with it. Two different workers, don't deal with the same document.
>> That way we can guarantee that there will be no concurrent writes to
>> riak.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
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>> On 30 January 2014 10:46, Russell Brown < russell.br...@me.com > wrote:
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>> On 30 Jan 2014, at 10:37, Edgar Veiga < edgarmve...@gmail.com > wrote:
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>> Also,
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>> Using last_write_wins = true, do I need to always send the vclock while
>> on a PUT request? In the official documention it says that riak will look
>> only at the timestamp of the requests.
>>
>>
>> Ok, from what you've said it sounds like you are always wanting to
>> replace what is at a key with the new information you are putting. If that
>> is the case, then you have the perfect use case for LWW=true. And indeed,
>> you do not need to pass a vclock with your put request. And it sounds like
>> there is no need for you to fetch-before-put since that is only to get
>> context /resolve siblings. Curious about your use case if you can share
>> more.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
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>> Russell
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>> Best regards,
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>> On 29 January 2014 10:29, Edgar Veiga < edgarmve...@gmail.com > wrote:
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>> Hi Russel,
>>
>>
>> No, it doesn't depend. It's always a new value.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
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>> On 29 January 2014 10:10, Russell Brown < russell.br...@me.com > wrote:
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>> On 29 Jan 2014, at 09:57, Edgar Veiga < edgarmve...@gmail.com > wrote:
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>> tl;dr
>>
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>> If I guarantee that the same key is only written with a 5 second
>> interval, is last_write_wins=true profitable?
>>
>> It depends. Does the value you write depend in anyway on the value you
>> read, or is it always that you are just getting a totally new value that
>> replaces what is in Riak (regardless what is in Riak)?
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>> On 27 January 2014 23:25, Edgar Veiga < edgarmve...@gmail.com > wrote:
>>
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>> Hi there everyone!
>>
>>
>> I would like to know, if my current application is a good use case to set
>> last_write_wins to true.
>>
>>
>> Basically I have a cluster of node.js workers reading and writing to
>> riak. Each node.js worker is responsible for a set of keys, so I can
>> guarantee some kind of non distributed cache...
>> The real deal here is that the writing operation is not run evertime an
>> object is changed but each 5 seconds in a "batch insertion/update" style.
>> This brings the guarantee that the same object cannot be write to riak at
>> the same time, not event at the same seconds, there's always a 5 second
>> window between each insertion/update.
>>
>>
>> That said, is it profitable to me if I set last_write_wins to true? I've
>> been facing some massive writting delays under high loads and it would be
>> nice if I have some kind of way to tune riak.
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
>>
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