If you want to do this, don´t use autoincrementing integers! ;o) Use UUID instead. (or implement an stand alone id-server that handles autoincrement savely)
2010/11/28 David Boxenhorn <da...@lookin2.com> > As our launch date approaches, I am getting increasingly nervous about > Cassandra tuning. It is a mysterious black art that I haven't mastered even > at the low usages that we have now. I know of a few more things I can do to > improve things, but how will I know if it is enough? All this is > particularly ironic since - as we are just starting out - we don't have > scalability problems yet, though we hope to! > > Luckily, I have completely wrapped Cassandra in an entity mapper, so that I > can easily trade in something else, perhaps temporarily, until we really > need Cassandra's scalability. > > So, I'm thinking of emulating Cassandra with mySQL. I would use mySQL > either as a simple key-value store, without joins, or map Cassandra > supercolumns to mySQL columns, probably of type CLOB. > > Does anyone want to talk me out of this? >
