questions about operations

2009-06-03 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
I'm looking at the cassandra data model and operations and I'm running into a number of questions I have not been able to answer: - what does get_columns_since do? I thought there's only one version of a column stored. I'm puzzled about the "since" aspect. - is the Thrift interface for get_su

Re: questions about operations

2009-06-04 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Jonathan Ellis wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: I'm looking at the cassandra data model and operations and I'm running into a number of questions I have not been able to answer: - what does get_columns_since do? I thought there's only o

Re: backing up data from cassandra

2009-10-05 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Isn't the question about how you back up a cassandra cluster, not a single node? Can you snapshot the various nodes at different times or do they need to be synchronized? Is there a minimal set of nodes that are sufficient to back up? Thorsten Jonathan Ellis wrote: bin/nodeprobe snapshot to

Re: [VOTE] Project Logo

2009-10-05 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Votes below. Eric Evans wrote: Alrighty then. Time to vote on a project logo. The ballot is made up of all the finalist logos with a rating of either 4 or 5 stars[0], and "None of the Above" (just in case you want to express your disgust with one or more of the choices). To vote, reply to the

Re: bandwidth limiting Cassandra's replication and access control

2009-11-11 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
A simple per keyspace authentication is a much needed feature for cassandra. This has little to do with "exposed to the outside world". The ACL on a cassandra server needs to give thrift access to clients, such as application servers. Without any authentication anyone having access to any serve

Re: Cassandra access control

2009-11-12 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
+1 It's not a lot of complexity and it doesn't throw sticks into frameworks that may model a conventional table as a keyspace. Thorsten Jonathan Mischo wrote: Conditional +1 here: +1 IF the Keyspace parameter is optional in 0.6 forward, but not completely eliminated AND IF login() has an

Re: Persistently increasing read latency

2009-12-04 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
It sounds like the system is limited by bytes/sec not by ops/sec since the bottleneck seems to be disk bandwidth. It might be helpful to compute bytes written per sec at the API level, and then estimate how often each "API byte" is written to disk and read from disk due to compactions. That wou

Re: Persistently increasing read latency

2009-12-04 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Jonathan Ellis wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Freeman, Tim wrote: Fundamentally there's only so much I/O you can do at a time. If you don't have enough, you need to upgrade to servers with better i/o (i.e. not EC2: http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2240&cpage=1) and/or more ram to cach