I think you should forget these RDBMS tech.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM, aXqd <axqd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ned Wolpert <ned.wolp...@imemories.com>
> wrote:
> > There is nothing wrong with what you are asking. Some work has been done
> to
> > get an ORM layer ontop of cassandra, for example, with a RubyOnRails
> > project. I'm trying to simplify cassandra integration with grails with
> the
> > plugin I'm writing.
> > The problem is ORM solutions to date are wrapping a relational database.
> > (The 'R' in ORM) Cassandra isn't a relational database so it does not map
> > cleanly.
>
> Thanks. I noticed this problem before. I just want to know, in the
> first place, what exactly is the right way to model relations in
> Cassandra(a no-relational database).
> So far, I still have those entities, and, without foreign keys, I use
> relational entities, which contains the IDs of both sides of
> relations.
> In some other cases, I just duplicate data, and maintain the relations
> manually by updating all the data in the same time.
>
> Is this the right way to go? Or what I am doing is still trying to
> convert Cassandra to a RDBMS?
>
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:29 AM, aXqd <axqd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Benoit Perroud <ben...@noisette.ch>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I understand the question more like : Is there already a lib which
> >> > help to get rid of writing hardcoded and hard to maintain lines like :
> >> >
> >> > MyClass data;
> >> > String[] myFields = {"name", "label", ...}
> >> > List<Column> columns;
> >> > for (String field : myFields) {
> >> > if (field == "name") {
> >> > columns.add(new Column(field, data.getName()))
> >> > } else if (field == "label") {
> >> > columns.add(new Column(field, data.getLabel()))
> >> > } else ...
> >> > }
> >> > (same for loading (instanciating) automagically the object).
> >>
> >> Yes, I am talking about this question.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards,
> >> >
> >> > Benoit.
> >> >
> >> > 2010/4/23 dir dir <sikerasa...@gmail.com>:
> >> >>>So maybe it's weird to combine ORM and Cassandra, right? Is there
> >> >>>anything we can take from ORM?
> >> >>
> >> >> Honestly I do not understand what is your question. It is clear that
> >> >> you can not combine ORM such as Hibernate or iBATIS with Cassandra.
> >> >> Cassandra it self is not a RDBMS, so you will not map the table into
> >> >> the object.
> >> >>
> >> >> Dir.
> >>
> >> Sorry, English is not my mother tongue.
> >>
> >> I do understand I cannot combine ORM with Cassandra, because they are
> >> totally different ways for building our data model. But I think there
> >> are still something can be learnt from ORM to make Cassandra easier to
> >> use, just as what ORM did to RDBMS before.
> >>
> >> IMHO, domain model is still intact when we design our software, hence
> >> we need another way to map them to Cassandra's entity model. Relation
> >> does not just go away in this case, hence we need another way to
> >> express those relations and have a tool to set up Keyspace /
> >> ColumnFamily automatically as what django's SYNCDB does.
> >>
> >> According to my limited experience with Cassandra, now, we do more
> >> when we write, and less when we read/query. Hence I think the problem
> >> lies exactly in how we duplicate our data to do queries.
> >>
> >> Please correct me if I got these all wrong.
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM, aXqd <axqd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hi, all:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I know many people regard O/R Mapping as rubbish. However it is
> >> >>> undeniable that ORM is quite easy to use in most simple cases,
> >> >>> Meanwhile Cassandra is well known as No-SQL solution, a.k.a.
> >> >>> No-Relational solution.
> >> >>> So maybe it's weird to combine ORM and Cassandra, right? Is there
> >> >>> anything we can take from ORM?
> >> >>> I just hate to write CRUD functions/Data layer for each object in
> even
> >> >>> a disposable prototype program.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Regards.
> >> >>> -Tian
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Virtually, Ned Wolpert
> >
> > "Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin..." --Marlowe
> >
>
