Re: Evaluating Cassandra for our use case

2010-07-29 Thread Aaron Morton
Thanks for this, Aaron. It does actually look like Redis may be better suited to our needs. I had originally discounted Redis because I had the impression that it had volatile storage only, but now I see that not to be the case. Thanks again! Yup, you've got Append Only, foreground  Snap Shot and

Re: Evaluating Cassandra for our use case

2010-07-29 Thread Russ Brown
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Aaron Morton wrote: > Have you considered Redis http://code.google.com/p/redis/? > > It may be more suited to the master-slave configuration you are after. > > - You can have a master to write to, then slave to a slave master, then your > web heads run a local redi

Re: Evaluating Cassandra for our use case

2010-07-28 Thread Aaron Morton
Have you considered Redis http://code.google.com/p/redis/? It may be more suited to the master-slave configuration you are after. - You can have a master to write to, then slave to a slave master, then your web heads run a local redis and slave from the slave master. - Backup at the master or the s

RE: Evaluating Cassandra for our use case

2010-07-28 Thread Daniel Kluesing
:pickscr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:11 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Evaluating Cassandra for our use case Hi, I'm currently looking at NoSQL solutions to replace a bespoke system that we currently have in place. Currently I think the best fit is Cassandra, but

Evaluating Cassandra for our use case

2010-07-28 Thread Russ Brown
Hi, I'm currently looking at NoSQL solutions to replace a bespoke system that we currently have in place. Currently I think the best fit is Cassandra, but I would like to get some feedback from those who know it better before spending more time on it. Our current system is geared to allowing our