Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-20 Thread Alex Major
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Tyler Hobbs wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:55 AM, aaron morton wrote: > >> >> >> It is not a judgement on the quality of PHPCassa or PDO-cassandra, >> neither of which I have used. >> >> My comments were mostly informed by past issues with Thrift and PHP. >>

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-20 Thread Hiller, Dean
As far as opinions go, the stack we are using is Playframework 1.2.5 (the stateless nature rocks compared to other platforms like tomcat or servlet container stuff). playOrm Astyanax Later, Dean On 8/17/12 11:54 AM, "Aaron Turner" wrote: >My stack: > >Java + JRuby + Rails + Torquebox > >I'm us

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-20 Thread Andy Ballingall TF
On Aug 19, 2012 9:55 AM, "aaron morton" wrote: > > > Aaron Morton (aa...@thelastpickle.com) advised: > > > > "If possible i would avoid using PHP. The PHP story with cassandra has > > not been great in the past. There is little love for it, so it takes a > > while for work changes to get in the cl

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-19 Thread Tyler Hobbs
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:55 AM, aaron morton wrote: > > > It is not a judgement on the quality of PHPCassa or PDO-cassandra, neither > of which I have used. > > My comments were mostly informed by past issues with Thrift and PHP. > Eh, you don't need to disclaim your opinion that much :) The PH

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-19 Thread aaron morton
> Aaron Morton (aa...@thelastpickle.com) advised: > > "If possible i would avoid using PHP. The PHP story with cassandra has > not been great in the past. There is little love for it, so it takes a > while for work changes to get in the client drivers. > > AFAIK it lacks server side states which

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-18 Thread Maciej Miklas
I'am using Java + Tomcat + Spring + Hector on Lunux - I works as always just great. It is also not bad idea to mix databases - Cassandra is not always solution for every problem, Cassandra + Mongo could be ;) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Aaron Turner wrote: > My stack: > > Java + JRuby + R

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-17 Thread Aaron Turner
My stack: Java + JRuby + Rails + Torquebox I'm using the Hector client (arguably the most mature out there) and JRuby+RoR+Torquebox gives me a great development platform which really scales (full native thread support for example) and is extremely powerful. Honestly I expect, all my future RoR a

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-17 Thread Edward Capriolo
The best stack is the THC stack. :) Tomcat Hadoop Cassandra :) On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Andy Ballingall TF wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running a number of tests with Cassandra using a couple of > PHP drivers (namely PHPCassa (https://github.com/thobbs/phpcassa/) and > PDO-cassandra (http:

Re: What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-17 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 11:09 +0100, Andy Ballingall TF wrote: > So my question is - if you were to build a new scalable project from > scratch tomorrow sitting on top of Cassandra, which technologies would > you select to serve HTTP requests to ensure you get: > > a) The best support from the cassa

What is the ideal server-side technology stack to use with Cassandra?

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Ballingall TF
Hi, I've been running a number of tests with Cassandra using a couple of PHP drivers (namely PHPCassa (https://github.com/thobbs/phpcassa/) and PDO-cassandra (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-pdo/), and the experience hasn't been great, mainly because I can't try out the CQL3