RE: cassandra as session store

2011-02-01 Thread Tong Zhu
The problem is where to store the session data. If the session need to be accessible by more than one web servers, the external storage is needed. Cassandra only supports eventual consistency. If web server w1 saves the session at node 1 of cassendra while web server w2 retrieve the session

RE: cassandra as session store

2011-02-01 Thread Tong Zhu
If it is a really session data, which will be active for a short time, a few hours, and it is OK to lose them, memcached is a better solution. I were using it when I was in Yahoo. Tong -Original Message- From: buddhasystem [mailto:potek...@bnl.gov] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:57