Re: Building on top of Cassandra's core layer

2010-05-05 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/05/2010 12:13 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: So I'm wondering: * Anyone know if such a thing has been attempted before? (And, if so, links to any stories about success / failure / tips.) I believe Jun Rao and Sandeep Tata built a kind of chain replication starting from Cassandra 0.4-ish. I

Re: Building on top of Cassandra's core layer

2010-05-04 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:55 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I've had some neat ideas that I'd like to tinker with for a distributed DB > that implements a very different data model than Cassandra.  However, I > obviously don't want to reinvent the wheel - particularly because in the > case of dist

Building on top of Cassandra's core layer

2010-05-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I've had some neat ideas that I'd like to tinker with for a distributed DB that implements a very different data model than Cassandra. However, I obviously don't want to reinvent the wheel - particularly because in the case of distributed systems, the wheel is quite complicated and hard to get