great talk tonight in NYC I attended in regards to using Cassandra as a Lucene Index store (really great idea nicely implemented) http://blog.sematext.com/2010/02/09/lucandra-a-cassandra-based-lucene-backend/
so Lucinda uses Cassandra as a distributed cache of indexes =8^) On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- /* Joe Stein http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc */
