I'm a Cassandra noob trying to validate Cassandra as a viable alternative to HBase (which we've been using for over a year) for our application. So far, I've had no success getting Cassandra working with MapReduce.
My first step is inserting data into Cassandra. I've created a MapRed job based using the fat client API. I'm using the fat client (StorageProxy) because that's what ColumnFamilyInputFormat uses and I want to use the same API for both read and write jobs. When I call StorageProxy.mutate(), nothing happens. The job completes as if it had done something, but in fact nothing has changed in the cluster. When I call StorageProxy.mutateBlocking(), I get an IOException complaining that there is no connection to the cluster. I've concluded with the debugger that StorageService is not connecting to the cluster, even though I've specified the correct seed and ListenAddress (I've using the exact same storage-conf.xml as the nodes in the cluster). I'm sure I'm missing something obvious in the configuration or my setup, but since I'm new to Cassandra, I can't see what it is. Any help appreciated, Joost
