Re: When should I use Solandra?

2011-06-05 Thread Jean-Nicolas Boulay Desjardins
Perfect thanks! On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Victor Kabdebon victor.kabde...@gmail.comwrote: Again I don't really know the specifics of Solandra but in Solr (so Solandra being a cousin of Solr it should be true too) you have XML fields like this : fields name=hashedpassword

When should I use Solandra?

2011-06-04 Thread Jean-Nicolas Boulay Desjardins
Hi, I am planning to use Cassandra to store my users passwords and at the same time data for my website that need to be accessible via search. My Question is should I use two DB: Cassandra (for users passwords) and Solandra (for the websites data) or can I put everything in Solandra? Is there a

Re: When should I use Solandra?

2011-06-04 Thread Victor Kabdebon
Why do you need Solandra for storing data ? If you want to retrieve data simply use Cassandra. Solandra is for research and indexing it is a search engine. I do not recommand you to store data uniquely in a search engine. Use the following desgin : *Store ALL data in Cassandra then extract from

Re: When should I use Solandra?

2011-06-04 Thread Norman Maurer
Are you sure you really need cassandra for this ? For me it sounds like mysql or other databases would be a better fit for you (if you don't need to store a very hugh amount of data...) Bye, Norman 2011/6/4 Jean-Nicolas Boulay Desjardins jnbdzjn...@gmail.com: Hi, I am planning to use Cassandra

Re: When should I use Solandra?

2011-06-04 Thread Jean-Nicolas Boulay Desjardins
Hi, So if I understand Solandra. All the data are in Solandra and you can query them like you would normaly with a normal Cassandra setup and search through them. The data from the indexing of Solr is stored in Cassandra column family... Second, question. I have Thrift already install will it