Re: cassandra as an email store ...

2011-12-16 Thread Rustam Aliyev
Hi Sasha, There's been a lot of fud in regards to SuperColumns. But actually in our case we found them quite useful. The main argument for using SC in that case is that message metadata is immutable and in most of the cases read and written alltogether (i.e. you fetch all message headers tog

Re: cassandra as an email store ...

2011-12-16 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Hi Rustam, Thanks for posting that. Interesting to see that you opted to use Super Column's: https://github.com/elasticinbox/elasticinbox/wiki/Data-Model .. wondering, for the sake of argument/discussion .. if anyone can come up with an alternative data model that doesn't use SC's. -sd On Fri,

Re: cassandra as an email store ...

2011-12-16 Thread Rustam Aliyev
Hi Sasha, Replying to the old thread just for reference. We've released a code which we use to store emails in Cassandra as an open source project: http://elasticinbox.com/ Hope you find it helpful. Regards, Rustam. On Fri Apr 29 15:20:07 2011, Sasha Dolgy wrote: Great read. thanks. On A

Re: cassandra as an email store ...

2011-04-29 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Great read. thanks. On Apr 29, 2011 4:07 PM, "sridhar basam" wrote: > Have you already looked at some research out of IBM about this usecase? > Paper is at > > http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer/nfic/2009/IBM-Jun-Rao.pdf > > Sridhar

Re: cassandra as an email store ...

2011-04-29 Thread sridhar basam
Have you already looked at some research out of IBM about this usecase? Paper is at http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer/nfic/2009/IBM-Jun-Rao.pdf Sridhar

cassandra as an email store ...

2011-04-29 Thread Sasha Dolgy
Hi, Previous discussions have covered cassandra not being the best at storing large binary files and it makes more sense to store pointers to the files in cassandra and for the files themselves to be stored on a local file system or some other entity like amazon s3, etc. if i wanted to funnel all