On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike Malone <m...@simplegeo.com> wrote: > ... > > FWIW, I added the atomic increment/decrement operations to the Django cache > interface (and wrote that documentation) because the functionality was > useful for large scale apps. I didn't implement atomic increment/decrement > or atomic add for backends that didn't natively support it because, in my > opinion (and in the opinion of the other Django contributors) any site that > requires that sort of functionality should be running memcached as their > cache backend. So I guess what I'm saying is that the functionality _is_ > useful. However, there probably are some users who would find the subset of > the memcache protocol that you _can_ implement on top of Cassandra useful.
That's useful information Mike. I am a bit curious about what the most common use cases are for atomic increment/decrement. I'm familiar with atomic add as a sort of locking mechanism. Paul Prescod
