On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Dominique De Vito <dominique.dev...@thalesgroup.com> wrote: > (1) has anyone already used Cassandra as an in-memory data grid ? > If no, does anyone know how far such a database is from, let's say, Oracle > Coherence ? > Does Cassandra provide, for example, a (synchronized) cache on the client > side ?
If you mean an in-process cache on the client side, no. > (2) has anyone already used Cassandra as a distributed cache ? > Are there some testimonials somewhere about this use case ? That's basically what reddit is using it for. http://blog.reddit.com/2010/03/she-who-entangles-men.html -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com