Has this been running w/ default settings (i.e. relying on the new memtable_total_space_in_mb) or was this an upgrade from 0.7 (or otherwise had the per-CF memtable settings applied?)
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > 0.8 under load may turn out to be more stable and well behaving than any > release so far > Been doing a few test runs stuffing more than 1 billion records into a 12 > node cluster and thing looks better than ever. > VM's stable and nice at 11GB. No data corruptions, dead nodes, full GC's or > any of the other trouble that plagued early 0.7 releases. > Still have to test more nasty stuff like rebalancing or recovering failed > nodes, but so far I would recommend anyone to consider 0.8 over 0.7.x if > setting up a new system > Terje > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Stephen Connolly > <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Great work! >> >> -Stephen >> >> P.S. >> As the release of artifacts to Maven Central is now part of the >> release process, the artifacts are all available from Maven Central >> already (for people who use Maven/ANT+Ivy/Gradle/Buildr/etc) >> >> On 3 June 2011 00:36, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: >> > >> > I am very pleased to announce the official release of Cassandra 0.8.0. >> > >> > If you haven't been paying attention to this release, this is your last >> > chance, because by this time tomorrow all your friends are going to be >> > raving, and you don't want to look silly. >> > >> > So why am I resorting to hyperbole? Well, for one because this is the >> > release that debuts the Cassandra Query Language (CQL). In one fell >> > swoop Cassandra has become more than NoSQL, it's MoSQL. >> > >> > Cassandra also has distributed counters now. With counters, you can >> > count stuff, and counting stuff rocks. >> > >> > A kickass use-case for Cassandra is spanning data-centers for >> > fault-tolerance and locality, but doing so has always meant sending data >> > in the clear, or tunneling over a VPN. New for 0.8.0, encryption of >> > intranode traffic. >> > >> > If you're not motivated to go upgrade your clusters right now, you're >> > either not easily impressed, or you're very lazy. If it's the latter, >> > would it help knowing that rolling upgrades between releases is now >> > supported? Yeah. You can upgrade your 0.7 cluster to 0.8 without >> > shutting it down. >> > >> > You see what I mean? Then go read the release notes[1] to learn about >> > the full range of awesomeness, then grab a copy[2] and become a >> > (fashionably )early adopter. >> > >> > Drivers for CQL are available in Python[3], Java[3], and Node.js[4]. >> > >> > As usual, a Debian package is available from the project's APT >> > repository[5]. >> > >> > Enjoy! >> > >> > >> > [1]: http://goo.gl/CrJqJ (NEWS.txt) >> > [2]: http://cassandra.debian.org/download >> > [3]: http://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/drivers >> > [4]: https://github.com/racker/node-cassandra-client >> > [5]: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging >> > >> > -- >> > Eric Evans >> > eev...@rackspace.com >> > >> > > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
