Re: Having Problems installing Chiton

2010-08-24 Thread Aaron Morton
You need to have the python thrift client and the generated cassandra thrift library in the python path. To get the thrift library I followed this guide http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/InstallThrift There may be an easier way though. It looks like the Telephus client includes the cassandra package

Re: Order preserving partitioning strategy

2010-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ellis
What are some good papers to read for background? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:26 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Hien. To Trong wrote: >> OrderPreservingPartitioner is efficient range queries but can cause >> unevently distributed data. Does anyone has an idea of a

Re: Order preserving partitioning strategy

2010-08-24 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Hien. To Trong wrote: > OrderPreservingPartitioner is efficient range queries but can cause > unevently distributed data. Does anyone has an idea of a > HybridPartitioner which takes advantages of both RandomPartitioner > and OPP, or at least a partitioner trade of

Re: [VOTE] 0.6.5 RC3

2010-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ellis
+1 On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > >>> Some important changes[1] have gone into the 0.6 branch since the >>> release, so let's cut this one a little early to get them into the >>> hands of users.  I propose the following artifacts for 0.6.5. > >> Alright, so in light of CASSA

[VOTE] 0.6.5 RC3

2010-08-24 Thread Eric Evans
>> Some important changes[1] have gone into the 0.6 branch since the >> release, so let's cut this one a little early to get them into the >> hands of users. I propose the following artifacts for 0.6.5. > Alright, so in light of CASSANDRA-1377[2] I've re-rolled the artifacts > as 0.6.5 rc2 (to

Re: [VOTE] 0.6.5 RC2

2010-08-24 Thread Eric Evans
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 22:35 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > > Some important changes[1] have gone into the 0.6 branch since the > > release, so let's cut this one a little early to get them into the > > hands of users. I propose the following artifacts for 0.6.5. > > Alright, so in light of CASSANDRA

Re: Order preserving partitioning strategy

2010-08-24 Thread Nick Telford
The trade-off is in choosing which property you need: order preservation or even load distribution. The only reason a hybrid partitioner doesn't exist is that no one has been able to create one. If you can create a partitioner that allows ordering whilst ensuring an even load distribution, by all