read one -- internal behavior

2014-03-07 Thread James Lyons
I'm wondering about the following scenario. Consider a cluster of nodes with replication say 3. When performing a read at "read one" consistency and lets say my client isn't smart enough to route the request to the Cassandra node housing the data at first. the contacted node acts as a coordinator

Re: Pig / Map Reduce on Cassandra

2013-01-17 Thread James Lyons
Silly question -- but does hive/pig hadoop etc work with cassandra 1.1.8? Or only with 1.2? We are using astyanax library, which seems to fail horribly on 1.2, so we're still on 1.1.8. But we're just starting out with this and i'm still debating between cassandra and hbase. So I just want to kn