Re: cassandra as user-profile data store

2011-03-03 Thread Dave Gardner
Dave We are in production with 0.6. We started with this and haven't had time to figure out how to upgrade smoothly. It's on the horizon though; there's loads of features we really could do with in 0.7. In terms of strategy, we don't currently follow Tyler's suggestions. I can't see any reason wh

Re: cassandra as user-profile data store

2011-03-01 Thread Dave Viner
Hi Dave, Glad to hear others are using it in this fashion! Are you using Tyler's suggested strategy for user-profile data - one CF that stores the "timeline", with rows of user-ids, and TimeUUID columns for each data-collection-time. Then some post-processing with Hadoop over the timelines for e

Re: cassandra as user-profile data store

2011-03-01 Thread Dave Gardner
Dave Tyler's answer already covers CFs etc.. We are using Cassandra to store user profile data for exactly the sort of use case you describe. We don't yet store _all_ the data in Cassandra; currently we are focusing on the stuff we need available for real-time access. We use Hadoop to analyse the

Re: cassandra as user-profile data store

2011-02-25 Thread Tyler Hobbs
> > I'm wondering if anyone has used cassandra as a datastore for a > user-profile service. I'm thinking of applications like behavioral > targeting, where there are lots & lots of users (10s to 100s of millions), > and lots & lots of data about them intermixed in, say, weblogs (probably TBs > wor

cassandra as user-profile data store

2011-02-23 Thread Dave Viner
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has used cassandra as a datastore for a user-profile service. I'm thinking of applications like behavioral targeting, where there are lots & lots of users (10s to 100s of millions), and lots & lots of data about them intermixed in, say, weblogs (probably TBs worth)