On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Joost Ouwerkerk wrote:
> +1. There is some disagreement on whether or not the API should
> return empty columns or skip rows when no data is found. In all of
> our use cases, we would prefer skipped rows. And based on how
> frequently new cassandra users appear t
I like your idea about specifying it at the SP level.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Joost Ouwerkerk wrote:
> +1. There is some disagreement on whether or not the API should
> return empty columns or skip rows when no data is found. In all of
> our use cases, we would prefer skipped rows. And
+1. There is some disagreement on whether or not the API should
return empty columns or skip rows when no data is found. In all of
our use cases, we would prefer skipped rows. And based on how
frequently new cassandra users appear to be confused about the current
behaviour, this might be a more
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Ian Kallen wrote:
> Cool, is this a patch you've applied on the server side? Are you running
> 0.6.x? I'm wondering if this kind of thing can make it into future versions
> of Cassandra.
>
Yea, server side. It's basically doing the same thing clients typically wan
Cool, is this a patch you've applied on the server side? Are you running
0.6.x? I'm wondering if this kind of thing can make it into future versions
of Cassandra.
-Ian
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Mike Malone wrote:
> Our solution at SimpleGeo has been to hack Cassandra to (optionally, at
> l
Our solution at SimpleGeo has been to hack Cassandra to (optionally, at
least) be sensible and drop Rows that don't have any Columns. The claim from
the FAQ that "Cassandra would have to check if there are any other columns
in the row" is inaccurate. The common case for us at least is that we're
on
Thanks Mark, great illustration. I'm already splitting my time developing
directly with hector and a vastly simplified jython wrapper around it; I
guess I'll address it at some wrapping layer (patch hector or let the jython
layer deal).
My grumpy editorial about this stuff is that on the cassandra
Hey Ian,
I actually just wrote a quick example of how to iterate over a CF that may
have tombstones. This may help you out:
http://markjgreene.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/iterate-over-entire-cassandra-column-family/
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Ian Kallen wrote:
> I read the DistributedDeletes
I read the DistributedDeletes and the range_ghosts FAQ entry on the wiki
which do a good job describing how difficult deletion is in an eventually
consistent system. But practical application strategies for dealing with it
aren't there (that I saw). I'm wondering how folks implement pagination in
t
