Re: Integrated cassandra

2012-09-26 Thread Robin Verlangen
Thank you both for your reply. We're not a 100% sure yet about what to use. The application itself is just as distributed as Cassandra is. It also embeds ElasticSearch. At this point I only see the "ring" as a real pain in the ass, as I have to automatically move nodes around to prevent unbalance

Re: Integrated cassandra

2012-09-26 Thread Aaron Turner
Cassandra is a distributed database meant to run across multiple systems. Is your existing Java application distributed as well? Does "maintain control" mean "exclude end users from connecting to it and making changes" or merely "provisioning and keep it running well operationally for the applicat

Re: Integrated cassandra

2012-09-26 Thread Vivek Mishra
if i am getting it correctly, then what you need to do is open a connection with cassandra daemon thread and access via client API, Have a look at: https://github.com/impetus-opensource/Kundera/blob/trunk/kundera-cassandra/src/test/java/com/impetus/client/persistence/CassandraCli.java here, initCl

Re: Integrated cassandra

2012-09-26 Thread Robin Verlangen
Do you have any ideas how to do this Vivek? Best regards, Robin Verlangen *Software engineer* * * W http://www.robinverlangen.nl E ro...@us2.nl Disclaimer: The information contained in this message and attachments is intended solely for the attention and use of the named a

Re: Integrated cassandra

2012-09-26 Thread Vivek Mishra
I guess, you can always open/maintain a socket with running cassandra daemon and have a control over specific column families/keyspace or server itself. -Vivek On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Robin Verlangen wrote: > Some additional information: I already read about "Embedding" > http://wik

Re: Integrated cassandra

2012-09-26 Thread Robin Verlangen
Some additional information: I already read about "Embedding" http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Embedding however that doesn't seem a rock solid solution to me. The word "volatile" is not really comforting me ;-) Best regards, Robin Verlangen *Software engineer* * * W http://www.robinverlangen.nl

Integrated cassandra

2012-09-25 Thread Robin Verlangen
Hi there, Is there a way to "embed"/package Cassandra with an other Java application and maintain control over it? Is this done before? Are there any best practices? Why I want to do this? We want to offer as less as configuration as possible to our customers, but only if it's possible without me