Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 79414 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2010 17:51:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 6 Apr 2010 17:51:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 52109 invoked by uid 500); 6 Apr 2010 17:51:20 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 52087 invoked by uid 500); 6 Apr 2010 17:51:20 -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 52079 invoked by uid 99); 6 Apr 2010 17:51:20 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:51:20 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=10.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.221.192] (HELO mail-qy0-f192.google.com) (209.85.221.192) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:51:13 +0000 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so155009qyk.16 for ; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:50:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.233.75 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:50:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BBB6B71.7010000@shic.co.uk> References: <4BBB1431.5070408@shic.co.uk> <1270564013.8771.157.camel@erebus.lan> <4BBB6B71.7010000@shic.co.uk> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:50:47 -0700 Received: by 10.229.228.3 with SMTP id jc3mr10004192qcb.83.1270576248072; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: A question of 'referential integrity'... From: Benjamin Black To: user@cassandra.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm finding this exchange very confusing. What exactly about Cassandra 'looks absolutely ideal' to you for your project? The write performance, the symmetric, peer to peer architecture, etc? b