Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-19 Thread Stu Hood
It's impossible to argue against this kind of consensus, so I won't. Can we please turn this discussion to something productive? Namely: now that we've eliminated the top (IMO) choice for a standard serialization framework within Cassandra, which option _will_ we choose? Continuing down our curren

Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Hanna
On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:12 -0500, Jake Luciani wrote: >> Some context: We have begun the process of removing Avro from the >> service layer CASSANDRA-926. We currently use Avro for schema >> migrations internally, and we have two open items that a

Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-17 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 18 January 2011 03:01, Eric Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:12 -0500, Jake Luciani wrote: >> Some context: We have begun the process of removing Avro from the >> service layer CASSANDRA-926. We currently use Avro for schema >> migrations internally, and we have two open items that are u

Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-17 Thread Brandon Williams
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > > My opinion is we need to control the lowest layers of the code and not > > rely on a third party library. By using a third party library like > > Avro, it becomes a black box that we need to deeply understand and > > work around. Also, since

Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-17 Thread Eric Evans
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:12 -0500, Jake Luciani wrote: > Some context: We have begun the process of removing Avro from the > service layer CASSANDRA-926. We currently use Avro for schema > migrations internally, and we have two open items that are using Avro > for our internal file storage. CASSAND

Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-17 Thread Gary Dusbabek
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:12, Jake Luciani wrote: > Hi, > > I'd to discuss if/when we should be using Avro or any serialization tool in > the Cassandra core. > > Some context: We have begun the process of removing Avro from the service > layer CASSANDRA-926. We currently use Avro for schema migra

Re: Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-17 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Jake Luciani wrote: > My opinion is we need to control the lowest layers of the code and not rely > on a third party library. +1. I think that a large part of we want to do at the bits-on-disk level is a poor fit for the kind of serialized objects-with-fields th

Avro in the Cassandra core

2011-01-17 Thread Jake Luciani
Hi, I'd to discuss if/when we should be using Avro or any serialization tool in the Cassandra core. Some context: We have begun the process of removing Avro from the service layer CASSANDRA-926. We currently use Avro for schema migrations internally, and we have two open items that are using Avro