singular or plural column family names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
I know this is an age old question. Kinda like the chicken and the egg. I know that everyone's solution is different but I wanted to get an open opinion. Do you all use singular or plural column family names in your keyspaces? I have been using plural for years and I have worked at jobs that use

Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
I will be naming my servers after insect family names. What do you all use for yours? If this is something that is too off topic please contact a moderator. Regards, Michael

Re: Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
, etc) On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, uncle mantis uncleman...@gmail.comwrote: I will be naming my servers after insect family names. What do you all use for yours? If this is something that is too off topic please contact a moderator. Regards, Michael

Re: Quick Poll: Server names

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
+1. Quick and simple. Regards, Michael On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Benjamin Black b...@b3k.us wrote: [role][sequence].[airport code][sequence].[domain].[tld]

Re: cassandra summit, making videos?

2010-07-27 Thread uncle mantis
Why is everything always in California or Las Vegas? :-( Regards, Michael On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Will there be videos of the session at the Cassandra Summit in SF? I am really interested in the Cassandra codebase/internals seminar.

Visual Data Store Design Tool?

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
Hey all. I am migrating from SQL to Cassandra. I use NaviCat and MySQL Workbench to design, develop and program databases for SQL. I am looking round trying to find the equivalent to MySQL Workbench but for Cassandra. I have not had much luck., Here is the link for MySQL Workbench.

Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
What do you all use for this? I am currently using MySQL Workbench for my SQL projects. PowerPoint? Visio? Gimp? Pencil and Paper? Thanks for the help! Regards, Michael

Re: Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
(if you like text files) jesse -- jesse mcconnell jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 13:10, Jonathan Shook jsh...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for Inkscape/SVG On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM, uncle mantis uncleman...@gmail.com wrote: What do you all use for this? I am

Re: Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
Chaker! Regards, Michael On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Chaker Nakhli chaker.nak...@javageneration.com wrote: Hi all, The example given by uncle Mantis was made using Adobe Illustrator. Cheers, --Chaker uncle mantis uncleman...@gmail.com wrote: I am giving PowerPoint's SmartArt's

Re: Cassandra Graphical Modeling

2010-07-26 Thread uncle mantis
in render-only mode to produce different raster formats. It's not as smart as GraphViz for large layouts, but the finished product is more customizable for smaller ones. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, uncle mantis uncleman...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you sir! Fantastic article BTW! It would

Re: real-world dataset from social network?

2010-05-20 Thread uncle mantis
Are you looking for Facebook stuff? Good luck on getting a data set from any real world model. Regards, Michael On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Valerio Schiavoni valerio.schiav...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, i'm a phd student looking for some real-world dataset of any social

Re: real-world dataset from social network?

2010-05-20 Thread uncle mantis
MIne is under developement. Sorry I can't help you at the moment :( Regards, Michael On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Valerio Schiavoni valerio.schiav...@gmail.com wrote: Not strictly Facebook. Any online social network is ok to me, as long as it has a reasonable number of users and that

Re: Cassandra training on May 21 in Palo Alto

2010-05-06 Thread uncle mantis
Next time you are in Houston, TX, COUNT ME IN! Regards, Michael On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be running a day-long Cassandra training class on Friday, May 21. I'll cover - Installation and configuration - Application design - Basics of

Re: What's the best maximum size for a single column?

2010-04-28 Thread uncle mantis
There is no column size limitation. As to performance due to the size of a column and with the speeds that Cassandra are running at, I don't belive it would make a bit of a difference if it was 1 byte or a million bytes. Can anyone here prove me right or wrong? Regards, Michael On Wed, Apr