disk usage management and scaling

2009-11-08 Thread TuxRacer69
Hello Everybody, I am trying to understand how disks are filled in cassandra. If we run cassandra in a cluster of N (commodity) servers and each server has the same DataFileDirectories configuration /var/lib/cassandra/data and with the same disk size, what should I do to never get a

newbie questions about Cassandra J. Ellis presentation

2009-11-13 Thread TuxRacer69
Hello Cassandra Users! On the wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations there is a link to J. Ellis pdf: http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Cassandra_%20Open%20Source%20Bigtable%20+%20Dynamo%20Presentation.pdf At page 41 we have: (Roadmap) Cassandra 0.5 Cassandra

Re: newbie questions about Cassandra J. Ellis presentation

2009-11-13 Thread TuxRacer69
t 12:20 AM, TuxRacer69 wrote: Hello Cassandra Users! On the wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations there is a link to J. Ellis pdf: http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Cassandra_%20Open%20Source%20Bigtable%20+%20Dynamo%20Presentation.pdf At page 41 we have: (Roadmap)

Re: configuration file comments on wiki

2009-11-13 Thread TuxRacer69
Hi Jonathan, That's me. I understand that it can be painful to update. However I would say that a project of the size and popularity of Cassandra deserves a dedicated configuration documentation. Also the Wiki format allows you to make links to other pages which obviously becomes non-clickabl

Re: configuration file comments on wiki

2009-11-14 Thread TuxRacer69
Eric Evans wrote: Actually, I think it would be great to have it in both places, the problem stems from each being updated independently (and yes, one of them will almost certainly suffer from lack of updates). I don't suppose something like Doxygen could be made to work with xml I believe it

Re: Why cassandra single node so slow?

2009-11-14 Thread TuxRacer69
Hi Ruslan, did you store the logs and the data on 2 different disks as described at: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/StorageConfiguration and http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#what_kind_of_hardware_should_i_use ? Cheers TuxRacer ruslan usifov wrote: Hello! I'm new in cassandra son i can m

Re: Why cassandra single node so slow?

2009-11-14 Thread TuxRacer69
Looking at http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Cassandra_%20Open%20Source%20Bigtable%20+%20Dynamo%20Presentation.pdf page 26 Cassandra should make around 100 read per sec and around 10,000 writes per sec (on the data equivalent of a 50Gb mysql db) so your results seem OK How do your result

intersection of result sets, filters based on column values?

2009-11-17 Thread TuxRacer69
Hello Cassandra Users, is filtering based on a column value possible with Cassandra? Example: I have a supper column with key: Paris, super column key: 2008.12.31.23.45.00, columns: (docid:99, type:pdf) key: Paris, super column key: 2008.12.31.23.46.00, columns: (docid:109, type:mp3) key: Par

Re: Cassandra data distribution and configuration settings

2009-11-17 Thread TuxRacer69
Jon, what is your key distribution? did you set on each node according to this distribution? TR Jon Graham wrote: Hello Everyone, I am running a 10 node Cassandra cluster using a recent cassandra trunk. After inserting a million data records using keys of 128 character lower case hex

Re: admin console ?

2009-11-19 Thread TuxRacer69
Igor, Writing your own JMX client is not that difficult. The natural language to write JMX clients is Java, but if you prefer to use your favourite language like Python or Ruby, there is a 'natural' way too. For python, you could use 'jython' http://jython.org You can then look at sample Ja