UUID cli output

2011-10-01 Thread Ruby Stevenson
hi all I am using UUID as my row key, and when examine it in CLI, I was expecting something like this that get printed: b2f0da40-ec2c-11e0--242d50cf1fbf instead, I am seeing something like this: 633866363838343065626462313165303030303032343264353063663166 How does this get transformed?

Re: Is Cassandra suitable for this use case?

2011-08-25 Thread Ruby Stevenson
ache.org > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:36:21 PM > Subject: Re: Is Cassandra suitable for this use case? > > You can chunk the files into pieces and store the pieces in Cassandra... > Munge all the pieces back together when delivering back to the client... > > On Aug

Re: Is Cassandra suitable for this use case?

2011-08-25 Thread Ruby Stevenson
hi Sasha - Yes indeed. this solution was in the second part of my original question - it just seems "out of norm" on what people usually use Cassandra for, I guess I am looking for some reassurance before I roll up the sleeve of trying it. Thanks Ruby On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Sasha Dol

Re: Is Cassandra suitable for this use case?

2011-08-25 Thread Ruby Stevenson
hi Evgeny I appreciate the input. The concern with HDFS is that it has own share of problems - its name node, which essentially a metadata server, load all files information into memory (roughly 300 MB per million files) and its failure handling is far less attractive ... on top of configuring an

Is Cassandra suitable for this use case?

2011-08-25 Thread Ruby Stevenson
hi, all - I am very new to Cassandra, please bear with me if this is really a FAQ. We are exploring if Cassandra is suitable use for a data management project. The basic characteristics of the data are the following: - it centers around data files, each data file's size can be very small to very