Re: Distributed counters are in trunk

2010-12-21 Thread Ben Standefer
Huzzah!!! Great work everybody! -Ben Standefer On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Thanks to Kelvin, Johan, Ryan, Sylvain, Chris, and everyone else for their > hard work on this! > > For mere mortals: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Counters. > > -

Re: Distributed Counters Use Cases

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Standefer
bly have some kind of high-level compaction that comes through and cleans it up, but it just become unwieldy at the app level. We plan on messing with #1072 in the very new future, as well as offering to beta test the increment buffering Ryan has mentioned. -Ben Standefer On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at

Re: [DISCUSSION] High-volume counters in Cassandra

2010-09-02 Thread Ben Standefer
I think such a widely desired feature should not be left as a patch for users to merge themselves. I like the idea of including both approaches and choosing between them given your requirements. -Ben Standefer On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Johan Oskarsson wrote: > In the last few months Dig

Re: cassandra increment counters, Jira #1072

2010-08-13 Thread Ben Standefer
more of an Ops guy and user, just trying to add perspective. I do not want a pony. -Ben Standefer On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > There are two concerns that give me pause. > > The first is that 1072 is tackling a use case that Cassandra already > handles w

Re: Gsoc2010 proposal

2010-03-26 Thread Ben Standefer
Priyanka, I think our listserv might be dropping your attachment. Please send it directly to me at benstande...@gmail.com. -Ben On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Priyanka Sharma wrote: > Hi > > I am Priyanka Sharma, master student at Vrije University, Amsterdam. My > major is "parallel and d

Re: Create a Cassandra demo application

2010-03-24 Thread Ben Standefer
I'm interesting in mentoring for this position. I think Ruby or Python would be best for an example app, and I think that having a well-documented Lucandra implementation (Wikipedia search) could really help a broad range of people out. -Ben Standefer On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:22 PM, J

Re: Standardizing Timestamps Across Clients

2010-03-18 Thread Ben Standefer
+1 I think this is a great idea. I've been bitten by this when switching clients, and it took a while to figure out what was going on. Good job on pycassa, vomjom! -Ben 2010/3/18 Ted Zlatanov > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:36:35 -0500 Jonathan Hseu > wrote: > > JH> Jonathan Ellis suggested that I