[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.1.7 released

2012-11-30 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 1.1.7. Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. You can read more here: http://cassand

Re: failing reconcilliation during counter increment?

2012-11-30 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
> > To my understanding client will not be notified because this read step is > asynchronously. Yes, though for the record it's actually synchronous if you use anything else than CL.ONE. > Also the other replica cannot be updated properly (replicate-on-write > stage is backing up). > Question i

Re: Java high-level client

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Lin
One thing to consider is hector-client master supports bigdecimal, reversed type and other CQL3 features. I don't use astyanax, so I didn't bother contributing the changes to them. If you don't use CQL and don't really care, they're functionally equal in my bias opinion. If you do use CQL2 or CQL

Re: strange row cache behavior

2012-11-30 Thread Yiming Sun
Does anyone have any comments/suggestions for me regarding this? Thanks I am trying to understand some strange behavior of cassandra row cache. We > have a 6-node Cassandra cluster in a single data center on 2 racks, and the > neighboring nodes on the ring are from alternative racks. Each node

Having issues with node token collisions when starting up Cassandra nodes in a cluster on VMWare.

2012-11-30 Thread John Buczkowski
Hi: Are there any known issues with initial_token collision when adding nodes to a cluster in a VM environment? I'm working on a 4 node cluster set up on a VM. We're running into issues when we attempt to add nodes to the cluster. In the cassandra.yaml file, initial_token is left blank. Since

Re: Data backup and restore

2012-11-30 Thread Tyler Hobbs
The nodetool snapshot command has keyspace and column family options (from nodetool --help): snapshot [keyspaces...] -cf [columnfamilyName] -t [snapshotName] - Take a snapshot of the optionally specified column family of the specified keyspaces using optional name snapshotName On Wed, Nov 28, 20