Re: Configuring ephemeral only column family

2013-08-16 Thread Jon Haddad
+1 for redis for this use case. On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Todd Nine wrote: > We're using expiring columns as a mean for locking. > > Perhaps a log structured data store with immutable data files is not ideal > for your use case? >

Re: Configuring ephemeral only column family

2013-08-16 Thread Robert Coli
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Todd Nine wrote: > We're using expiring columns as a mean for locking. Perhaps a log structured data store with immutable data files is not ideal for your use case? If I were you, I'd put this use case in Redis and be done with it instead of trying to get Ca

Re: Configuring ephemeral only column family

2013-08-16 Thread Arthur Zubarev
What about compactions, how often do you run them? -Original Message- From: Todd Nine Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:43 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Configuring ephemeral only column family Hi guys, We're using expiring columns as a mean for locking. All of this

Configuring ephemeral only column family

2013-08-16 Thread Todd Nine
Hi guys, We're using expiring columns as a mean for locking. All of this data should be completely ephemeral with only a 5 second ttl per column. We're seeing some strangeness where our rows are getting quite large with tombstones. We really don't need the commit log, nor the sstables in our u