The thing that I thought if initially would be setting up your cluster in a multi-datacenter config[1]. In that scenario you could add an additional machine in a second datacenter with RF=1. We are using a variant of this setup to separate long running calculations from our interactive systems.
[1] - http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/deploying-cassandra-across-multiple-data-centers Robert Jackson ----- Original Message ----- | From: "A J" <s5a...@gmail.com> | To: user@cassandra.apache.org | Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:20:33 AM | Subject: Continuous export of data out of database | Hello | VoltDB has an export feature to stream the data out of the database. | http://voltdb.com/company/blog/voltdb-export-connecting-voltdb-other-systems | This is different from Cassandra's export feature | (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Import_.2BAC8_export) | which is more of a different way of snapshotting. | My question is : is streaming data out on a continuous basis (as in | VoltDB) possible in some fashion in Cassandra ? | Thanks | Bala
