I found the following paper (PDF) very helpful in shaping my thoughts about what it means to build systems without transactions.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs223/papers/cidr07p15.pdf "LIfe Beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion" by Pat Helland On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:00 PM, tijoriwala.ritesh <tijoriwala.rit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks a lot Anthony. That does help me think on possible options... > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Patterns-for-writing-enterprise-applications-on-cassandra-tp6030077p6033316.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >