Riak or Luwak?

2011-08-09 Thread Evans, Matthew
Hi, I have mailed the list a few times about a specific application need, and keep coming back to the possibility of using Riak for our needs (Disco, Hadoop/Cassandra and other applications are also under consideration). The requirement is that we need to be able to save large volumes of log da

RE: Riak or Cassandra for this...

2011-06-29 Thread Evans, Matthew
Hi, LevelDB seems very interesting. Looking at the specs it appears that it should be more than fast enough. Thanks Matt From: David Smith [diz...@basho.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:04 PM To: Evans, Matthew Cc: riak-users@lists.basho.com

RE: Riak or Cassandra for this...

2011-06-29 Thread Evans, Matthew
, but I can't imagine it's too hard to implement that. Matt From: Nico Meyer [nico.me...@adition.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:17 AM To: riak-users@lists.basho.com Cc: Evans, Matthew Subject: Re: Riak or Cassandra for this... Hi Matthew,

Riak or Cassandra for this...

2011-06-28 Thread Evans, Matthew
Hi, I've been looking at a number of technologies for a simple application. We are saving large amounts of data to disc; this data is event-log/sensor data which may look something like: Version, Account, RequestID, Timestamp, Duration, IPAddr, Method, URL, HTTP Version, Response_Code, Size, H

RE: Pros/Cons to not storing JSON

2011-06-09 Thread Evans, Matthew
Hi, Why not convert your term to a string, and then you can do map reduce can't you? Term to a string... 1> Term = [{one,1},{two,2},{three,3}]. [{one,1},{two,2},{three,3}] 2> String = lists:flatten(io_lib:format("~p.", [Term])). "[{one,1},{two,2},{three,3}]." Save "String" in riak... Then back

Erlang API

2011-06-08 Thread Evans, Matthew
Hi List, I'm new to riak, and I am thinking of using riak to store log file / statistics information from a client application. The main benefit riak could offer here are its map-reduce/search capabilities. The client side applications are developed in a variety of languages, but in the end al