The best stack is the THC stack. :) Tomcat Hadoop Cassandra :)
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Andy Ballingall TF <balling...@thefoundry.co.uk> 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://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. > > 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 makes connection pooling > impossible. You should not pool cassandra connections in something > like HAProxy." > > 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 cassandra community (e.g. timely updates > of drivers, better stability) > b) Optimal efficiency between webservers and cassandra cluster, in > terms of the performance of individual requests and in the volumes of > connections handled per second > c) Ease of development and and deployment. > > What worked for you, and why? What didn't work for you? > > > Thanks, > Andy > > > -- > Andy Ballingall > Senior Software Engineer > > The Foundry > 6th Floor, The Communications Building, > 48, Leicester Square, > London, WC2H 7LT, UK > Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 6828 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7930 8906 > Web: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/ > > The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. > Registered in England and Wales No: 4642027
