cassandra-cli, does it use an existing lib

2010-08-09 Thread S Ahmed
Hi, Curious if the command line tool (cassandra-cli) uses some existing lib to give it base functionality like tab-autocomplete etc.

suggested reading to understand what's going on

2010-07-23 Thread S Ahmed
Hi All, What topics do you guys suggest I read to understand the codebase, now I'm not talking dynamo and bigtable papers here, I'm referring to specific computer science topics/algorithms/patterns/concepts or even things specific to the java language. I figured since this is a highly concurrent

file access logic

2010-04-08 Thread S Ahmed
When data has to be read from file (immutable sstable), where in the codebase/logic does it go about searching for the location of the key? Once it has found the key, is the exact location in terms of its location on disk stored in a index for future lookups? When data is stored on disk, is it ju

Re: Bloom Filters

2010-04-08 Thread S Ahmed
hehe, sorry guys. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Ran Tavory wrote: > +1 For boon. > I kinda liked it... > > On Apr 8, 2010 3:03 PM, "Jeff Schmitz" wrote: > > That typo in subject line was driving me nuts > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:04 AM, gabriele renzi wrote: > > 2010/4

boonfilters

2010-04-07 Thread S Ahmed
Just reading up on boonfilters, few questions. Basically boonfilters let give you a true/false if a particular key exists, and they *may* give you a false positive i.e. they key exists but never a false negative i.e. the key doesn't exist. The core of boonfilters is its hashing mechanism that mar

RE: cassandra's context and environment

2010-04-06 Thread S Ahmed
Just getting up to speed on java threading/sockets/io/etc. and very much exciting about all things cassandra. My question is, in what context is cassandra running on a server? i.e. does the entire service run in a java container like tomcat/jetty? or does it run like java -jar cassandra.jar and t

writing and reading data

2010-04-04 Thread S Ahmed
Hi, I'm sort of new to java, and was hoping someone could suggest starting points on browsing the code. I want to get an under-the-covers idea of how things work in Cassandra. I've watched a view videos about it, and now want a little more detail. Where do you suggest I begin when browsing the