From cassandra-user-return-595-apmail-incubator-cassandra-user-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Mon Sep 14 23:13:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cassandra-user-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 29522 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2009 23:13:40 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Sep 2009 23:13:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 10255 invoked by uid 500); 14 Sep 2009 23:13:39 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cassandra-user-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 10220 invoked by uid 500); 14 Sep 2009 23:13:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cassandra-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 10211 invoked by uid 99); 14 Sep 2009 23:13:39 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:13:39 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.211.198] (HELO mail-yw0-f198.google.com) (209.85.211.198) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:13:29 +0000 Received: by ywh36 with SMTP id 36so5365189ywh.21 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.154.4 with SMTP id b4mr4167804age.84.1252969927184; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.1.7? (c-67-176-95-143.hsd1.co.comcast.net [67.176.95.143]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm733218aga.22.2009.09.14.16.12.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) Subject: Re: random n00b question From: Joe Stump In-Reply-To: <7bfc6c610909141609k20f402c7o4419428916e8a642@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:12:01 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <4AAE1581.90309@boboco.ie> <7bfc6c610909141609k20f402c7o4419428916e8a642@mail.gmail.com> To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org I'd recommend still using Memcached for sessions. The reason is because Memcached has built in garbage collection of zombie sessions (via LRU) and Cassandra does not. --Joe On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Matt Kydd wrote: > I'm looking at a similar use for Cass - storing sessions and some > denormalised data for fast frontend use. > > The app will be Rails and was planned to be using Memcache for > partials, but I'm looking at ways I can get those in to Cass too - > eliminating Memcached altogether from the architecture. > > MK