Re: Cassandra Needs to Grow Up by Version Five!

2018-02-20 Thread Prasenjit Sarkar
Jeff, I don't think you can push the topic of usability back to developers by asking them to open JIRAs. It is upon the technical leaders of the Cassandra community to take the initiative in this regard. We can argue back and forth on the dynamics of open source projects, but the usability concern

RE: Cassandra Needs to Grow Up by Version Five!

2018-02-20 Thread Kenneth Brotman
If you watch this video through you'll see why usability is so important. You can't ignore usability issues. Cassandra does not exist in a vacuum. The competitors are world class. The video is on the New Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sf4McGN1AQ Kennet

Could I trouble someone to run look through JIRA 8460?

2018-02-20 Thread Lerh Chuan Low
Dear all, Just wondering if anyone has any available capacity to have a look through https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8460 and give their thoughts on the initial patch I have? Namely the decisions on having archiving configurable from the YAML but controlled from the Compaction Str

Memtable flush -> SSTable: customizable or same for all compaction strategies?

2018-02-20 Thread Carl Mueller
When memtables/CommitLogs are flushed to disk/sstable, does the sstable go through sstable organization specific to each compaction strategy, or is the sstable creation the same for all compactionstrats and it is up to the compaction strategy to recompact the sstable if desired?

Save the date: ApacheCon North America, September 24-27 in Montréal

2018-02-20 Thread Rich Bowen
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Re: Cassandra Needs to Grow Up by Version Five!

2018-02-20 Thread Daniel Hölbling-Inzko
Hi, I have to add my own two cents here as the main thing that keeps me from really running Cassandra is the amount of pain running it incurs. Not so much because it's actually painful but because the tools are so different and the documentation and best practices are scattered across a dozen outd