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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:56:57 -0500
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I'm still very new to Cassandra, but when I started reading about it the first 
thing I thought about was a session store. It's based (in part from what I 
understand) on Dynamo which is (again, I could be wrong) used at Amazon as the 
session store for your shopping cart.

So I would certainly reach for Cassandra if I needed a reliable distributed 
session store.

Bill-

On 02/01/2011 03:24 PM, Sasha Dolgy wrote:
>
> What I'm still unclear about, and where I think this is suitable, is Cassandra
> being used as a data warehouse for current and past sessions tied to a user.
>   Yes, other things are great for session management, but I want to provide near
> real time session information to my users ... quick and simple and i want to use
> cassandra ... surely i can't be that bad for thinking this is a good idea?
> -sd
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Kallin Nagelberg <kallin.nagelberg@gmail.com
> <mailto:kallin.nagelberg@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     nvm on the persistence, it seems like it does support it:
>
>     'Since version 1.1 the safer alternative is an append-only file (a
>     journal) that is written as operations modifying the dataset in memory
>     are processed. Redis is able to rewrite the append-only file in the
>     background in order to avoid an indefinite growth of the journal.'
>
>     This thread probably shouldn't digress too much from Cassandra's
>     suitability for session management though..
>