Re: [VOTE] Release Mojo's Cassandra Maven Plugin 0.8.6-1

2011-09-21 Thread Colin Taylor
+1 (non binding but lgtm) On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to release version 0.8.6-1 of Mojo's Cassandra Maven Plugin > to sync up with the recent 0.8.6 release of Apache Cassandra. > > > We solved 2 issues: > http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote

Re: Second Cassandra users survey

2011-11-07 Thread Colin Taylor
like Cassandra could detect data with the appropriate magic, store as is and decode for us automatically on the way back. Colin.

Re: Cassandra to Oracle?

2012-01-22 Thread Colin Clark
You don't have to use oracle and pay money, you can use postgresql for example. Triggers aren't that hard to implement. We actually do.all of our mutations now via triggers and we did it inside by effectivley overriding the mutate logic itself. On Jan 20, 2012 11:42 AM, "Zach Richardson" wrote:

Re: Any experience of 20 node mini-itx cassandra cluster

2013-04-12 Thread Colin Blower
ve any > gotcha's I should be aware of wrt to the hardware? > > I do realise the CPU is fairly low computational power but I'm going > to assume the system is going to be IO bound hence the RAM and SSD's. > > > Thanks > > Jabbar Azam -- *Colin Blower* /Software Engineer/ Barracuda Networks Inc. +1 408-342-5576 (o)

Starting up Cassandra occurred errors after upgrading Cassandra to 1.2.5 from 1.0.12

2013-05-29 Thread Colin Kuo
me new format. 5. Restart Cassandra process and monitor the logs file for any issues. At step 5, we found the error messages as below. Any ideas? Thank you! Colin ===

Re: Date range queries

2013-06-25 Thread Colin Blower
800200c9a66 | f7af75d0-ddfa-11e2-b74c-35d7be46b354 | 2 | blah 11b1e59c-ddfa-11e2-a28f-0800200c9a66 | f9893ee0-ddfa-11e2-b74c-35d7be46b354 | 1 | no This way you can get the history of answers if you want and there is a simple way to get the most current answers. Just a though

Re: Token Aware Routing: Routing Key Vs Composite Key with vnodes

2013-07-11 Thread Colin Blower
ting key userId? > > Looking at the datastax driver code, is a bit confusing, it seems that > it calculate the token only when all the values of a composite key is > available, or I am missing something? > > Thanks, > > Haithem > -- *Colin Blower* /Software Engineer/ Barracuda Networks Inc. +1 408-342-5576 (o)

Re: sstable size ?

2013-07-17 Thread Colin Blower
years. I hadn't noticed until I > just upgraded to 1.2.6, > but now I see it affects everything. > > > Jim -- *Colin Blower* /Software Engineer/ Barracuda Networks Inc. +1 408-342-5576 (o)

Triggering Major Compaction

2010-12-13 Thread Colin Vipurs
We've had our small cluster successfully running in production for ~6 weeks now with everything working beautifully. Over the weekend I noticed the load on 2 boxes shoot up to 5-6x that of the others and after kicking off a major compaction the load has come back down to normal. What procedure sh

Re: Do you have a site in production environment with Cassandra? What client do you use?

2011-01-17 Thread Colin Vipurs
Java + Pelops On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Dave Viner wrote: > Perl using the thrift interface directly. > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Daniel Lundin wrote: >> >> python + pycassa >> scala + Hector >> >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ertio Lew wrote: >> > Hey, >> > >> > If you have

Re: cassandra as session store

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Vipurs
Wouldn't something like Redis be a better fit than Cassandra? On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Tong Zhu wrote: > If it is a really session data, which will be active for a short time, a few > hours, and it is OK to lose them, memcached is a better solution. I were > using it when I was in Yahoo.

Too many ParNew's

2010-06-05 Thread Colin Vipurs
I'm seeing lots of ParNew messages which is affected performance, along the lines of: INFO 17:54:18,567 GC for ParNew: 1522 ms, 69437384 reclaimed leaving 979692384 used; max is 4424663040 INFO 17:54:22,567 GC for ParNew: 1989 ms, 69323576 reclaimed leaving 981439840 used; max is 4424663040 INF

Update vs Delete/Insert

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Vipurs
I've got some data that I'm doing counts on, stored in a CF as: { : : } With updates happening as an insert on the specific column. I need to extract the top X values by count and I was wondering if storing this as: { : PLACEHOLDER : PLACEHOLDER } would be a bett

Re: Too many ParNew's

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Vipurs
Hi Pete, I set the swappiness to 0 but the problem remained. The only way I've managed to avoid it is to use standard disk mode. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: >>  INFO 17:54:18,567 GC for ParNew: 1522 ms, 69437384 reclaimed leaving >> 979692384 >> used; max is 442466304

Re: Digg 4 Preview on TWiT

2010-07-06 Thread Colin Clark
What were the right questions? I view Facebook's move away from Cassandra as somewhat significant. And are they indeed using HBase then, and if so, what were the right answers? On 7/6/2010 5:34 AM, David Strauss wrote: On 2010-07-05 15:40, Eric Evans wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 13:14

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Colin Clark
x27;t), then basing your solution on un-proven storage solutions (commercial or open source, SQL or NoSQL) is a risky and short sighted strategy." Please send death threats via the channels iterated below: Colin +1 315 886 3422 cell +1 701 212 4314 office http://blog.cloudeventprocessing.co

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-10 Thread Colin Clark
Benjamin, Please see below - it sounds like you're taking this a little personally and I'm not sure why. You've made some errors in your reply. Colin +1 315 886 3422 cella +1 701 212 4314 office http://blog.cloudeventprocessing.com http://twitter.com/EventCloudPro <

Re: TechCrunch article on Twitter and Cassandra

2010-07-12 Thread Colin Clark
ntprocessing.com http://twitter.com/EventCloudPro <http://twitter.com/EventCloudPro%20> On 7/12/2010 7:07 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Colin Clark wrote: Although I'm a fan of Cassandra, there's no way I'd use it today for my tier 1 deployments,

Re: CRUD test

2010-07-22 Thread Colin Vipurs
Have you checked the timestamp you're using for the subsequent inserts is higher than that used in the delete? On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Oleg Tsvinev wrote: > Hi there, > I'm trying to implement a simple CRUD service based on Cassandra. I use > Hector client. > While writing tests, I found

Re: Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread Colin Vipurs
+1 for this > I know this is a fun thread, and I hate being a "debby downer" > but...In my opinion, naming servers after anything then their function > is not a great idea. Lets look at some positives and negatives: > > System1: > cassandra01 > cassandra02 > cassandra03 > > VS > > System2: > tom >

Re: Capping the memory limit in cassandra

2010-09-07 Thread Colin Vipurs
Are you using mmapped i/o? If so you'll be running into https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1214 On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Dathan Pattishall wrote: > For this java process > > /opt/java/bin/java -ea -Xms1G -Xmx7G -XX:+UseParNewGC > -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkE

Secondary Index Null Pointer Error

2010-09-16 Thread Colin Britton
exist? Thanks Colin

Re: Secondary Index Null Pointer Error

2010-09-21 Thread Colin Britton
after I post a fix for > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1415. > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Colin Britton > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using Casandra 0.7 trunk (r997357) and am having issues with a > > secondary index. > > >

Slice Query

2010-03-24 Thread Colin Vipurs
Hi all, I've just started playing with Cassandra and investigating if it's useful for us, so please be gentle when I ask silly questions :). When user super columns is it possible to perform a slice operation to pull out all SC's/Keys that match a specific/range of column names? Putting it more c

Re: Slice Query

2010-03-24 Thread Colin Vipurs
trying to figure out if I could bypass the second index completely. For other operations I need to extract the Top X entries for each row key (LH)- does this sound sane or am I still stuck in RDBMS land? On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:57 AM,

Re: Model Question

2010-03-25 Thread Colin Vipurs
Peter, Do you think 0-padding the entries would be more efficient than just implementing your own comparator? On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Peter Chang wrote: > If there's not much overhead, I recommend client side as well. > Otherwise, you can only sort on column. Therefore, you could creat

Newbie modelling question

2010-04-12 Thread Colin Yates
Hi all, I have read the docs and lots of posts on this forum and it feels like things are starting to click into place, but I wanted to make sure. Bear with me please :) Basically we have the following model: Client { projects: Collection users: Collection } Project { owner: User (in a

Off line client nodes?

2010-04-12 Thread Colin Yates
Hi, In our architecture, our consultants want to perform some analysis on the train, disconnected from the web. How can I achieve this in Cassandra? I realise this isn't quite the use-case that was thought about when the clustering was designed, but will it work? Scenario: - consultantA is

(another) Newbie question

2010-04-12 Thread Colin Yates
Hi, Assume I have: SCF: Projects : { CF:"project1": { 20100101: {cost:10, other columns}, 20100102: {cost:10, other columns}, . 20100120: {cost 10, other columns} }, CF:"project2": { 20100105: {cost:12, other columns} .

Re: Off line client nodes?

2010-04-13 Thread Colin Yates
Thanks for all your advice - I am evaluating couchDB now. I can see that each is designed for different use-cases and couchDB is optimal for this. Many thanks all. Col Colin Yates gmail.com> writes:

Re: Cassandra Java Client

2010-04-16 Thread Colin Vipurs
Take a look at Hector, a Java client: http://wiki.github.com/rantav/hector/ There's example code here: http://github.com/rantav/hector/blob/master/src/main/java/me/prettyprint/cassandra/service/ExampleClient.java On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Nirmala Agadgar wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tel

problem building source

2010-04-28 Thread Colin Taylor
e.rat/apache-rat/ivy-0.6.xml.original. Parent=org. apache.rat#apache-rat-project;0.6 When I wget those poms they do look like binary corrupted files. Any suggestions? Can anyone else build from scratch [ie blowing away ivy cache] cheers Colin

Re: problem building source

2010-04-28 Thread Colin Taylor
n Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Colin Taylor wrote: > Hi, I currently can't build Cassandra from the source repository. > I get a bunch of checksum issues like: > > [ivy:retrieve]  problem while downloading module descriptor: > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/apache/

Moving SSTable to fix JBOD imbalance

2017-05-12 Thread Axel Colin de Verdiere
Hello ! I'm experiencing a data imbalance issue with one of my nodes within a 3-nodes C* 2.1.4 cluster. All of them are using JBOD (2 physical disks), and this particular node seems to have recently made a relatively big compaction (I'm using STCS), creating a 56Go SSTable file, which results in o

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