Re: [VOTE] Apache Cassandra 0.8.0-beta1 (take #2)

2011-04-20 Thread Courtney Robinson
+1 -Original Message- From: Eric Evans Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:35 AM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Apache Cassandra 0.8.0-beta1 (take #2) Let's try this again. I propose the following artifacts for release as 0.8.0 beta1. You will note the addition of th

Re: PHP Cassandra CQL driver

2011-03-29 Thread Courtney Robinson
Comments inline... On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Eric Evans wrote: My suggestion as a means of heavily mitigating the damage of these attacks would be to only permit a single query at a time (i.e. remove the ';' token). This is effectively the case. The parser is run exactly once for eac

Re: PHP Cassandra CQL driver

2011-03-29 Thread Courtney Robinson
Great work, guys! Glad to see CQL picking up steam. I think it will be a game-changer for adoption. Hopefully! Firstly, has it already been taken into consideration that CQL implicitly means injections may become a problem? Absolutely. The same best practices for a SQL driver apply: parametr

Re: PHP Cassandra CQL driver

2011-03-29 Thread Courtney Robinson
@cassandra.apache.org ; client-...@cassandra.apache.org Cc: Courtney Robinson Subject: Re: PHP Cassandra CQL driver I have to say I'm not a huge fan of reverse-engineering the interface, especially not from the Java implementation. I think we'd be better off using the other d

PHP Cassandra CQL driver

2011-03-29 Thread Courtney Robinson
Okay, Dave Gardner, Nick Telford and myself met at the London Cassandra meetup. We were keen on getting a PHP CQL driver done and decided to use github while working on it. This mail is mainly to raise awareness of this as well as to ask a few questions and throw a few things out there that came

Re: State Of: CQL - driver devs

2011-03-20 Thread Courtney Robinson
I've been looking at the Java and Python drivers and they are both using Thrift. I thought the idea was to get rid of thrift/avro? The two implemented (however partial) drivers seem to have similar naming conventions for class and methods. Has it been agreed to try and do this? I reckon it'd be

Re: State Of: CQL

2011-03-20 Thread Courtney Robinson
Possibly, I think doing a gsoc would leave a few dead projects and in the end someone would decide to pick up one or two of them and possibly take development in a diff. direction than was intended. Much like the multitude of clients that start, die and get re-born. ---

Re: CQL status

2011-01-11 Thread Courtney Robinson
?On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Courtney Robinson wrote: ?Having been pointed to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1704 I wanted to know what the state of that was. Eric Evans said changes had been pushed to SVN, can I check out the latest head and play with it? Yes

Re: Time for 1.0

2011-01-11 Thread Courtney Robinson
?+1 I see no reason why not. Since I've been using Cassandra (just over a year), its been pretty stable*. With all the improvements that have been made i say that more than warrants a 1.0 release. -Original Message- From: Paul Brown Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:47 AM To: dev@c

CQL status

2011-01-11 Thread Courtney Robinson
?Having been pointed to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1704 I wanted to know what the state of that was. Eric Evans said changes had been pushed to SVN, can I check out the latest head and play with it? Looking at the comments, if its not too late here's my 2cents. For what it'

Re: [DISCUSSION] High-volume counters in Cassandra

2010-09-24 Thread Courtney Robinson
?Apologies for my last e-mail with the misleading subject i was reading this thread and mistakenly replied with stuff.

Re: [DISCUSSION] High-volume counters in Cassandra

2010-09-24 Thread Courtney Robinson
?I've been using Cassandra for a while now and no problems. I have a new project coming up now that we're penciling out the data structure for. The best we've come up with has turned into a graph structure i'm just wanting to know what people think because i know there are graph db's out there

Cassandra 0.7 example

2010-09-01 Thread Courtney Robinson
Hello everyone, I'm sorry if that has been asked already, i've just joined the list. can anyone provide a quick java example of connecting to cassandra and setting up a keyspace and a column family using thrift. I know my way around 0.6 and i'm trying to get ready to migrate to 0.7 when its sta