Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-19 Thread Alessio Cecchi
Il 19/02/2012 14:51, francesco.tangari@gmail.com ha scritto: considering your question: "My question is, can also Cassandra split a "query" over the cluster like MapReduce?" and knowing the answer... as said Don Smith i suppose you are at first chapter of the book :) Yes, it is true, before

Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-19 Thread francesco . tangari . inf
considering your question: "My question is, can also Cassandra split a "query" over the cluster like MapReduce?" and knowing the answer... as said Don Smith i suppose you are at first chapter of the book :) -- francesco.tangari@gmail.com Inviato con Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com

Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-19 Thread Alessio Cecchi
Il 18.02.2012 09:51 francesco.tangari@gmail.com ha scritto: i suppose that he should buy http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010852.do , to get an idea of what cassandra can and what can't. that's my personal thinking. I'have just bought this book: http://www.packtpub.com/cassandra-apach

Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-18 Thread francesco . tangari . inf
i suppose that he should buy http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010852.do , to get an idea of what cassandra can and what can't. that's my personal thinking. -- francesco.tangari@gmail.com Inviato con Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) Il giorno venerdì 17 febbraio 2012, al

Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Gerken
In response to an offline question… There are two usage patterns for Cassandra column families, static and dynamic. With both approaches you store objects of a given type into a column family. With static usage the object type you're persisting has a single key and each row in the column famil

Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-17 Thread Jeremy Hanna
MapReduce and Hadoop generally are pluggable so you can do queries over HDFS, over HBase, or over Cassandra. Cassandra has good Hadoop support as outlined here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HadoopSupport. If you're looking for a simpler solution, there is DataStax's enterprise product whic

Re: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Gerken
Don, That's a good idea, but you have to be careful not to preclude the use of dynamic column families (e.g. CF's with time series-like schemas) which is what Cassandra's best at. The right approach is to build your own "ORM"/persistence layer (or generate one with some tools) that can hide th

RE: General questions about Cassandra

2012-02-17 Thread Don Smith
Are there plans to build-in some sort of map-reduce framework into Cassandra and CQL? It seems that users should be able to apply a Java method to selected rows in parallel on the distributed Cassandra JVMs. I believe Solandra uses such an integration. Don