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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:49:53 -0500
Message-ID: <q2we06563881005060749pba5b0098l97fe55861d8b2f24@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to initialize the Cassandra
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what you see in bin/ is pretty much what you get.

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Dop Sun <sunht@dopsun.com> wrote:
> Is this feedback for my request on initializing data for Cassandra? :-)
>
> Basically, my question is whether there is a tool, like json2sstable, whi=
ch
> can import some data in a format which can be easily manual created. I do=
n't
> know the experience of other people, but what I'm currently doing is writ=
ing
> a small application to write the data in.
>
> Dop
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbellis@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:25 PM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: How to initialize the Cassandra
>
> The simplest way is to just use thrift batch_mutate.
>
> If Cassandra CPU is your bottleneck then using the binary load method
> from StorageProxy can help (see contrib/bmt_example).
>
> If Casssandra disk or network is your bottleneck then binary load
> won't really help.
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Dop Sun <sunht@dopsun.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I just discovered that the json file exported by sstable2json contains
> more
>> than the data itself, like deletedAt values.
>>
>>
>>
>> I=92m thinking whether there is a tool can import some initial data?
>>
>>
>>
>> When we are doing the typical RDBMS system, this is how we are doing:
>>
>> 1)=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Define the schema
>>
>> 2)=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Initialize the database with initial data using Insert=
 statements
>>
>> 3)=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Running the application
>>
>>
>>
>> If following these steps in Cassandra:
>>
>> 1)=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Define the schema: this is done by define the KeySpace
>>
>> 2)=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Initialize the data with initial data: =A0This is curr=
ently not
> there.
>> We can import data exported from existing installation, but not from
> nothing
>>
>> 3)=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Running the application
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dop
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
> http://riptano.com
>
>
>


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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com