Thanks for this update. After another day at work, and more reading into the Cassandra's underlying model, I think the problem i am encountering is less due to HBase and more with user error and a highly faulty cluster.
Cassandra's clean api and integration with thrift were the two biggest factors that attracted me to it, in addition to personal vouches from people at my university. Another attractor is based on several remarks that it was much simpler to set up than HBase, which has been our main point of failur. I have read, though, that Cassandra is not as focused on large scale analysis of documents, via hadoop, in the way that HBase is. I'm going to try playing around with Cassandra over the next few days and see if it's more stable on our often failing cluster when combined with Hadoop. I'll definitely try the simple solution of having a thrift connection to Cassandra in the reducer. Thanks! --Keith On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Status: Fixed, Fix version: 7.0 beta 1 means it's in the beta1 that > was just released, although > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1315 is open to change > the API slightly. Either way, it won't be backported to 0.6. > > But you can write to Cassandra from the Hadoop job just fine w/o an > OutputFormat. Just create a Thrift connection in your reduce job. > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Keith Stevens <fozzietheb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm currently working on a project that is using HBase and Hadoop, but > i'm > > currently looking into alternatives to HBase. Cassandra seems to be the > > next best replacement, or perhaps a better replacement, except that the > > stable release is lacking support for hadoop jobs writing to Cassandra. > > I found CASSANDRA-1101 and wanted to know how stable that update is. > Will > > it be made part of a release any time soon? Has anyone been using the > > update regularly? > > Thanks! > > --Keith > > > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://riptano.com >
