Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 92283 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2010 23:49:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 29 Mar 2010 23:49:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 72200 invoked by uid 500); 29 Mar 2010 23:49:45 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 72179 invoked by uid 500); 29 Mar 2010 23:49:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 72171 invoked by uid 99); 29 Mar 2010 23:49:45 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:49:45 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [38.102.63.181] (HELO smtp-2.01.com) (38.102.63.181) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:49:37 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8599E1AD6E1 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp-2.01.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-2.01.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zqR9ENPF-o28 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: by smtp-2.01.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 6AE211ADAED; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from Curium.local (rrcs-97-77-172-34.sw.biz.rr.com [97.77.172.34]) by smtp-2.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 341811AD6E1 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:49:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4BB13C78.9010607@fourkitchens.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:49:12 +0000 From: David Strauss Organization: Four Kitchens User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: How reliable is cassandra? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC1FC6AB6678B828081BE7230" X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC1FC6AB6678B828081BE7230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2010-03-29 17:31, Matthew Stump wrote: > Am I crazy to want to switch our server's primary data store from postg= res to cassandra? This is a system used by banks and governments to stor= e crypto keys which absolutely can not be lost. This sounds like an LDAP problem. There are very nice LDAP systems available that support multi-master replication and are commonly used as key stores. Also, I imagine reads are more important than writes for you, and LDAP tools tend to be optimized for reads. --=20 David Strauss | david@fourkitchens.com Four Kitchens | http://fourkitchens.com | +1 512 454 6659 [office] | +1 512 870 8453 [direct] --------------enigC1FC6AB6678B828081BE7230 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuxPHsACgkQZ52GCE5ilTNHfgCeMMndRmJ7lo/7Wx4A/i+fuYBM hwIAoI2wwEHfYNUytaxAUcsyaWX3+KXE =Z6XU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC1FC6AB6678B828081BE7230--