Re: cassandra summit, making videos?

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
Why is everything always in California or Las Vegas? :-( Regards, Michael On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, S Ahmed wrote: > Will there be videos of the session at the Cassandra Summit in SF? > > I am really interested in the Cassandra codebase/internals seminar. > > >

Re: Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
+1. Quick and simple. Regards, Michael On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Benjamin Black wrote: > [role][sequence].[airport code][sequence].[domain].[tld] >

Re: Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
books (e.g., lord of the rings, asimov >> novels, etc) >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, uncle mantis wrote: >> >>> I will be naming my servers after insect family names. What do you all >>> use for yours? >>> >>> If this is something that is too off topic please contact a moderator. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Michael >>> >> >> >

Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
I will be naming my servers after insect family names. What do you all use for yours? If this is something that is too off topic please contact a moderator. Regards, Michael

singular or plural column family names

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
I know this is an age old question. Kinda like the chicken and the egg. I know that everyone's solution is different but I wanted to get an open opinion. Do you all use singular or plural column family names in your keyspaces? I have been using plural for years and I have worked at jobs that use

Re: Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
s are available. You can then invoke Inkscape in render-only > mode to produce different raster formats. It's not as smart as > GraphViz for large layouts, but the finished product is more > customizable for smaller ones. > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, uncle mantis >

Re: Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
k you Chaker! Regards, Michael On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Chaker Nakhli < chaker.nak...@javageneration.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The example given by uncle Mantis was made using Adobe Illustrator. > > Cheers, > --Chaker > > uncle mantis wrote: > > &

Re: Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
ke text files) > > jesse > > -- > jesse mcconnell > jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 13:10, Jonathan Shook wrote: > > +1 for Inkscape/SVG > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM, uncle mantis > wrote: > >> Wh

Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
What do you all use for this? I am currently using MySQL Workbench for my SQL projects. PowerPoint? Visio? Gimp? Pencil and Paper? Thanks for the help! Regards, Michael

Visual Data Store Design Tool?

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
Hey all. I am migrating from SQL to Cassandra. I use NaviCat and MySQL Workbench to design, develop and program databases for SQL. I am looking round trying to find the equivalent to MySQL Workbench but for Cassandra. I have not had much luck., Here is the link for MySQL Workbench. http://wb.mys

Re: Cassandra basics

2010-07-24 Thread Uncle Mantis
I want to point out my up hill battle tips. Make some friends in the Freenode #Cassandra IRC channel. Stop hunting for formal documentation and just read all articles and examples you can get a hold if regardless of it is Java or PHP or Ruby. Take a look at Thrift and it's many wrappers. Ther

Re: real-world dataset from social network?

2010-05-20 Thread uncle mantis
MIne is under developement. Sorry I can't help you at the moment :( Regards, Michael On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Valerio Schiavoni < valerio.schiav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not strictly Facebook. > Any online social network is ok to me, as long as it has a reasonable > number of users and

Re: real-world dataset from social network?

2010-05-20 Thread uncle mantis
Are you looking for Facebook stuff? Good luck on getting a data set from any real world model. Regards, Michael On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Valerio Schiavoni < valerio.schiav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > i'm a phd student looking for some real-world dataset of any social > ne

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-06 Thread uncle mantis
Next time you are in Houston, TX, COUNT ME IN! Regards, Michael On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I'll be running a day-long Cassandra training class on Friday, May 21. > I'll cover > > - Installation and configuration > - Application design > - Basics of Cassandra inte

Re: What's the best maximum size for a single column?

2010-04-28 Thread uncle mantis
There is no column size limitation. As to performance due to the size of a column and with the speeds that Cassandra are running at, I don't belive it would make a bit of a difference if it was 1 byte or a million bytes. Can anyone here prove me right or wrong? Regards, Michael On Wed, Apr 28,

Long Time relational Database Programmer needing help

2010-04-28 Thread uncle mantis
Hey folks! I found out about Cassandra just yesterday. I took the dive. I have Cassandra and Java installed on my Ubuntu box on my Rackspace Cloud server. I am having a hard time getting things going. I am so used to Relational Databases such as MySQL and MSSQL that I really do not know where to s