Cassandra Hack-a-thon in Austin

2010-08-25 Thread Eric Evans
Some of us from Rackspace are going offsite and heads-down for a day of hacking to see how much of the Avro support in Cassandra we can get knocked out. We'll be at Austin Cowork (http://www.coworkaustin.com/about.php) on September 1 from 8am to 6pm, and we have space enough for 4 more if anyone

Re: launch failure with current git (svn?)

2010-08-25 Thread Chip Salzenberg
Thanks, will try that On 8/25/2010 7:33 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: maybe adding the new default validator is breaking it? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-891 in which case blowing away system keyspace and re-initializing your schema should fix it adding new optional fields

Re: [VOTE] 0.6.5 RC3

2010-08-25 Thread Brandon Williams
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com wrote: As I mentioned previously[3], there was an issue with the fix for the fix to CASSANDRA-1377[3], so I propose the follow for 0.6.5. Third time is the charm, right? SVN:

Re: Order preserving partitioning strategy

2010-08-25 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
Hi Jonathan, I've never seen a paper that discusses it as a primary topic, it is always in some other context. IIRC, the most recent discussions of it I have seen have been in join algorithm literature from somewhere in Asia. MPP analytical databases often implement some form of skew adaptivity