Re: When should I use Solandra?

2011-06-04 Thread Norman Maurer
Are you sure you really need cassandra for this ? For me it sounds like mysql or other databases would be a better fit for you (if you don't need to store a very hugh amount of data...) Bye, Norman 2011/6/4 Jean-Nicolas Boulay Desjardins : > Hi, > I am planning to use Cassandra to store my users

Re: CassandraFS in 1.0?

2011-07-07 Thread Norman Maurer
May I ask if its opensource by any chance ? bye norman Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011 schrieb David Strauss : > I'm not sure HDFS has the right properties for a media-storage file > system. We have, however, built a WebDAV server on top of Cassandra > that avoids any pretension of being a general-pu

Re: nodetool repair: No neighbors

2011-07-31 Thread Norman Maurer
I created an issue and attached a patch: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2979 I was not sure if it would be better to handle it in NodeProbe or StorageService.. Bye, Norman 2011/7/31 Sylvain Lebresne : > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Jason Baker wrote: >> When I run nodetoo

Re: How to release a customised Cassandra from Eclipse?

2011-08-07 Thread Norman Maurer
Its ant artifacts Bye Norman 2011/8/7, Alvin UW : > Thanks guys. > > The problem is solved. I copied cassandra and cassandra.in to my bin folder. > Then used "ant release " to generate my customized cassandra.jar in dist > folder. > it worked. > > To Aaron: I tried "ant artefacts", but it faile

Re: release mmap memory through jconsole?

2011-09-30 Thread Norman Maurer
I would also not use such a big heap. I think most people will tell you that 12G -16G is max to use. Bye, Norman 2011/9/30 Yi Yang : > It is meaningless to release such memory. The counting includes the data you > reached in the SSTable. Those data locates on your hard drive. So it is not > the

Re: building a new email-like inbox service with cassandra

2011-11-17 Thread Norman Maurer
I would be very interested in this. I wrote a prototype for JAMES which uses cassandra to store emails and provide them via IMAP and POP3 so it would be nice to see your impl. thanks norman Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011 schrieb Rustam Aliyev : > Hi Dotan, > > We have already built something si

Re: node.js library?

2011-12-05 Thread Norman Maurer
As far as I know its the library that was developed by "rackspace". See https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client As rackspace is using node.js + cassandra I would expect it works ;) Bye, Norman 2011/12/5 Joe Stein > Hey folks, so I have been noodling on using node.js as a new front

Re: issue for cassandra-cli on 0.7-rc1

2010-12-02 Thread Norman Maurer
You need to terminate the command with a ";". Try: help; Bye, Norman 2010/12/2 Yikuo Chan : > Hi there , > > After install cassandra 0.7rc1 , I get no respond problem after execute > cassandra-cli , please reference below log and help > me to fix this issue : > > [r...@xxx cassandra]# bin/cassan

Re: hazelcast

2010-12-10 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi there, I'm not using it atm but plan to in my next project. It really looks nice :) Bye, Norman 2010/12/10 Germán Kondolf : > Hi, I'm using it as a complement of cassandra, to avoid "duplicate" > searches and duplicate content in a given moment in time. > It works really nice by now, no criti

Re: unsubscribe

2011-02-02 Thread Norman Maurer
To make it short.. No it can't. Bye, Norman (ASF Infrastructure Team) 2011/2/2 F. Hugo Zwaal : > Can't the mailinglist server be changed to treat messages with unsubscribe > as subject as an unsubscribe as well? Otherwise it will just keep happening, > as people simply don't remember or take tim

Re: Do supercolumns have a purpose?

2011-02-09 Thread Norman Maurer
I still think super-columns are useful you just need to be aware of the limitations... Bye, Norman 2011/2/9 Mike Malone : > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:03 AM, David Boxenhorn wrote: >> >> Shaun, I agree with you, but marking them as deprecated is not good enough >> for me. I can't easily stop usin

Re: [RELEASE] 0.7.1

2011-02-14 Thread Norman Maurer
Huh, isn't that what mirrors are supposed to be for ? Bye, Norman 2011/2/14 Frank LoVecchio : > Did the site get hacked? > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/cassandra/0.7.1/apache-cassandra-0.7.1-bin.tar.gz > Sources keep changing... > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Eric Evans wrot

Re: cluster size, several cluster on one node for multi-tenancy

2011-02-17 Thread Norman Maurer
Maybe you could make use of "Virtual Keyspaces". See this wiki for the idea: https://github.com/rantav/hector/wiki/Virtual-Keyspaces Bye, Norman 2011/2/17 Frank LoVecchio : > Why not just create some sort of ACL on the client side and use one > Keyspace?  It's a lot less management. > > On Thu,

Re: managing a limited-length list as a value

2011-02-18 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi there, there is not such an operation in cassandra. The only thing which comes "close" is the TTL support which will "delete" columns after a given time. See: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-expiring-columns Bye, Norman 2011/2/18 Benson Margulies : > The following is

Re: java.io.IOException in CompactionExecutor

2011-02-21 Thread Norman Maurer
The "problem" on windows is that it is a bit more worried about rename a file if the handle is still open.. So maybe some stream not closed on the file. Bye, Norman 2011/2/21 Aaron Morton : > From th F:/ I assume you are on Windows ? What version? > Just did a quick test on Ubuntu 10.0.4 and it

Re: Queries on secondary indexes

2011-02-21 Thread Norman Maurer
No sure whats your problem.. Use two EQ operations works without a problem here (even via the cli). Bye, Norman 2011/2/18 Rauan Maemirov : > With this schema: > create column family Userstream with comparator=UTF8Type and rows_cached = > 1 and keys_cached = 10 > and column_metadata=[{col

Re: Can I get a range of not deleted rows?

2011-02-22 Thread Norman Maurer
To make it short... No. You can only check if the Row contains at least one Column to understand if its a Tombstone or not.. Bye, Norman 2011/2/22 Joshua Partogi : > Hi there. > > It seems that when I fetch a range of rows, cassandra also includes > rows that has been deleted. Is it possible to

Re: Is it possible to get list of row keys?

2011-02-23 Thread Norman Maurer
query per ranges is only possible with OPP or BPP. Bye, Norman 2011/2/23 Sasha Dolgy : > What if i want 20 rows and the next 20 rows in a subsequent query?  can this > only be achieved with OPP? > > -- > Sasha Dolgy > sasha.do...@gmail.com > > On 23 Feb 2011 13:54, "Ching-Cheng Chen" wrote: >

Re: Is it possible to get list of row keys?

2011-02-23 Thread Norman Maurer
yes but be aware that the keys will not in the "right order". Bye, Norman 2011/2/23 Roshan Dawrani : > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Ching-Cheng Chen > wrote: >> >> Actually, if you want to get ALL keys, I believe you can still use >> RangeSliceQuery with RP. >> Just use setKeys("","") as fir

Re: Storing photos, images, docs etc.

2011-03-02 Thread Norman Maurer
2011/3/2 Peter Schuller : >> Is it advisable or ok to store photos, images and docs in cassandra where you >> expect high volume of uploads and views? > > To diverge a bit from the direction the thread is going: You can > definitely store large files in Cassandra. I would recommend against > doing

Re: Splitting the data of a single blog into 2 CFs (to implement effective caching) according to views.

2011-03-08 Thread Norman Maurer
Yeah this make sense as far as I can tell. Bye, Norman 2011/3/8 Aditya Narayan > > My application displays list of several blogs' overview data (like > blogTitle/ nameOfBlogger/ shortDescrption for each blog) on 1st page (in > very much similar manner like Digg's newsfeed) and when the user

Re: sstable2json not loading CLASSPATH properly?

2011-03-13 Thread Norman Maurer
What about creating a bugreport and attach the needed changes. I bet cassandra devs love contributions Bye Norman 2011/3/13, Jason Harvey : > nvm, I found the problem. Sstable2json and json2sstable require a > log4j-tools properties file. I created one and all was well. I guess > that should

Re: secondary indexes on data imported by json2sstable

2011-03-14 Thread Norman Maurer
I would expect they get created on the fly while importing. If not I think its a bug... Bye, Norman 2011/3/14 Terje Marthinussen > Hi, > > Should it be expected that secondary indexes are automatically regenerated > when importing data using json2sstable? > Or is there some manual procedure th

Re: Double ColumnType and comparing

2011-03-14 Thread Norman Maurer
I will have a look at what it takes to implement it.. Bye, Norman 2011/3/14 David Boxenhorn > I you do it, I'd recommend BigDecimal. It's an exact type, and usually what > you want. > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> We'd be happy to commit a patch contributing a

Re: Something about cassandra API

2011-03-28 Thread Norman Maurer
Hi there, you would be better of to use a high-level client like hector or pelops. See: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions But to answer your question... If you really want to use something lowlevel then Thrift is the way to go... Bye, Norman 2011/3/28 An Zhuo > HI, I've lear

Re: Job opening cassandra Barcelona, Spain

2010-08-30 Thread Norman Maurer
I think you should try jobs at apache.org too ;) Bye, Norman 2010/8/25 Dimitry Lvovsky : > Hi All, > Please forgive the job offer spam. > > We're looking to add a developer with  experience using Cassandra, to join > our team in Barcelona.  An ideal candidate  will have a strong CS background >

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Norman Maurer
Comments inside.. 2010/9/26 Lucas Nodine : > I'm looking at a design where multiple clients will connect to Cassandra and > get/mutate resources, possibly concurrently.  After planning a bit, I ran > into the following scenero for which I have not been able to research to > find an answer sufficie

Re: Curious as to how Cassandra handles the following

2010-09-26 Thread Norman Maurer
To be more clear (maybe I was not before). BatchMutate is not atomic. So it only "batch up" mutates to reduce overhead. So it can be that you will receive data from it even if the whole operation is not complete or will not complete. bye, Norman 2010/9/26 Norman Maurer : > Co

Re: Newbie Question about restarting Cassandra

2010-10-06 Thread Norman Maurer
CTRL + Z does not stop a programm it just suspend it. You will need to resume it with "fg" and then hit CTRL + C to stop it. For some basic background: http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/jobs/ Bye, Norman 2010/10/6 Alberto Velandia : > Hi I've stopped cassandra hitting Ctrl + Z and tried to rest

Re: get keys based on values??

2010-10-06 Thread Norman Maurer
Only in 0.7 Bye, Norman 2010/10/6 Brayton Thompson : > Are secondary index's available in .6.5? or are they only in .7? > On Oct 6, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Tyler Hobbs wrote: > > If you're interested in only checking part of a column's value, you can > generally > just store that part of the value in a

Re: Cassandra + Zookeeper, what is the current state?

2010-10-19 Thread Norman Maurer
No Zookeeper is not used in cassandra. You can use Zookeeper as some kind of add-on to do locking etc. Bye, Norman 2010/10/19 Yang : > I read from the Facebook cassandra paper that zookeeper "is used > ." for certain things ( membership and Rack-aware placement) > > but I pulled 0.7.0-beta2

Re: Cassandra crashed - possible JMX threads leak

2010-10-26 Thread Norman Maurer
Depending on finalize() is really not want you want todo, so I think the API change would be preferable. Bye, Norman 2010/10/26 Bill Au : > I would be happy to submit a patch but is it a bit more trickier than simply > calling JMXConenctor.close().  NodeProbe's use of the JMXConnector is not > e

Re: Cassandra won't start Java Issue Snow Leopard

2010-11-24 Thread Norman Maurer
Change in the bin Directory and run ./cassandra -f Bye Norman 2010/11/24, Alberto Velandia : > Hi I'm getting this error when i run bin/cassandra -f > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/cassandra/thrift/CassandraDaemon > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundExc