Hi,
I am Jan Algermissen (REST-head, freelance programmer/consultant) and
Cassandra-newbie.
I am looking at Cassandra for an application I am working on. There will be a
max. of 10 Million items (Texts and attributes of a retailer's products) in the
database. There will occasional writes
You have lot of questions there so I can't answer all but for the following:
*Can a user of the system define new jobs in an ad-hoc fashion (like a
query) or do map reduce jobs need to be prepared by a developer (e.g. in
RIAK you do a developer to compile-in the job when you need the perormance
of
Is it possible to reduce the response time (by tuning, adding more nodes) to
make a result available within a couple of minutes? Or will there most
certainly be a gap of 10 minutes or so and more?
Yes.
More nodes will split the task up and it will run faster.
How long it takes depends on