Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread Gregori Schmidt
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Drew Kutcharian wrote: > Hi Gregori, > > I'm about to start a new project and I was considering using MongoDB too, > but I just couldn't find a nice way to scale it. Seems like for scaling you > need to use the same style as MySQL, having master/slaves and replica

Re: Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-30 Thread Gregori Schmidt
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > The client space as a whole *is* a mess, despite heroic efforts on the > part of our third-party API maintainers, but forcing them in-tree is not > going to solve anything. In fact, it would very likely make it worse by > adding unnecessary ov

Ditching Cassandra

2011-03-29 Thread Gregori Schmidt
hi, After using Cassandra during development for the past 8 months my team and I made the decision to switch from Cassandra to MongoDB this morning. I thought I'd share some thoughts on why we did this and where Cassandra might benefit from improvement. - The API is horrible and it produces p