My stack: Java + JRuby + Rails + Torquebox
I'm using the Hector client (arguably the most mature out there) and JRuby+RoR+Torquebox gives me a great development platform which really scales (full native thread support for example) and is extremely powerful. Honestly I expect, all my future RoR apps will be built on JRuby/Torquebox because I've been so happy with it even if I don't have a specific need to utilize Java libraries from inside the app. And the best part is that I've yet to have to write a single line of Java! :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The best stack is the THC stack. :) > > Tomcat Hadoop Cassandra :) > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Andy Ballingall TF > <balling...@thefoundry.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been running a number of tests with Cassandra using a couple of >> PHP drivers (namely PHPCassa (https://github.com/thobbs/phpcassa/) and >> PDO-cassandra (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-pdo/), >> and the experience hasn't been great, mainly because I can't try out >> the CQL3. >> >> Aaron Morton (aa...@thelastpickle.com) advised: >> >> "If possible i would avoid using PHP. The PHP story with cassandra has >> not been great in the past. There is little love for it, so it takes a >> while for work changes to get in the client drivers. >> >> AFAIK it lacks server side states which makes connection pooling >> impossible. You should not pool cassandra connections in something >> like HAProxy." >> >> So my question is - if you were to build a new scalable project from >> scratch tomorrow sitting on top of Cassandra, which technologies would >> you select to serve HTTP requests to ensure you get: >> >> a) The best support from the cassandra community (e.g. timely updates >> of drivers, better stability) >> b) Optimal efficiency between webservers and cassandra cluster, in >> terms of the performance of individual requests and in the volumes of >> connections handled per second >> c) Ease of development and and deployment. >> >> What worked for you, and why? What didn't work for you? -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"
