Re: Question about eventually consistent in Cassandra

2011-08-02 Thread Kent Narling
Have not used Cassandra much yet, but it seems pretty clear to me that the entry with the latest timestamp (sent in by the client) will be the one that will be the "winner" eventually. Mark here that this is the timestamp the client send in which is not necessarily the actual time. So eg if the D

Using Cassandra for transaction logging, good idea?

2011-07-28 Thread Kent Narling
Hi! I am considering to use cassandra for clustered transaction logging in a project. What I need are in principal 3 functions: 1 - Log transaction with a unique (but possibly non-sequential) id 2 - Fetch transaction with a specific id 3 - Fetch X new transactions "after" a specific cursor/trans