Does Cassandra itself use triggers internally for something? That would make a pretty good case for triggers being ready for production use.
Otherwise, it would tend to be a neglected feature because active developers would have no good reason to add features to it other than just make the test suite pass. On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I used them. I built do it yourself secondary indexes with them. They > have > > there gotchas, but so do all the secondary index implementations. Just > > because datastax does not write about something. Lets see like 5 years > ago > > there was this: https://github.com/hmsonline/cassandra-triggers > > > > > Still in use? How'd it work? Production ready? Would you still do it that > way in 2017? > > > > There is a fairly large divergence to what actual users do and what other > > groups 'say' actual users do in some cases. > > > > A lot of people don't share what they're doing (for business reasons, or > because they don't think it's important, or because they don't know > how/where), and that's fine but it makes it hard for anyone to know what > features are used, or how well they're really working in production. > > I've seen a handful of "how do we use triggers" questions in IRC, and they > weren't unreasonable questions, but seemed like a lot of pain, and more > than one of those people ultimately came back and said they used some other > mechanism (and of course, some of them silently disappear, so we have no > idea if it worked or not). > > If anyone's actively using triggers, please don't keep it a secret. Knowing > that they're being used would be a great way to justify continuing to > maintain them. > > - Jeff >
