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From: Paul Choi <paulchoi@plaxo.com>
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CC: Aaron Turner <synfinatic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RTG/MRTG/Cricket replacement using Cassandra?
Thread-Topic: RTG/MRTG/Cricket replacement using Cassandra?
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:25:37 +0000
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Just finished looking at the slides. It looks awesome!

On 3/31/11 4:19 PM, "Ryan King" <ryan@twitter.com> wrote:

>We have a solution for time series data on cassandra at Twitter that
>we'd like to open source, but it requires 0.8/trunk so we're not going
>to release it until that's stable.
>
>See=20
>http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/rainbird-realtime-analytics-at-twitter
>-strata-2011
>
>-ryan
>
>On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Aaron Turner <synfinatic@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> I've been looking at replacing our PostgreSQL backend for RTG (a SNMP
>> based polling and graphing solution for network traffic/ports) with
>> something using Cassandra in order to solve our scalability and
>> redundancy requirements.  Based on a lot of what I've read, Cassandra
>> is an ideal data store for this  time series data.  In fact, Eric
>> Evans in his presentation on the Cassandra home page suggests that
>> this kind of use case is perfect for Cassandra.
>>
>> So this got me wondering if someone had already come up with a CF
>> model for this kind of data, including daily/weekly/monthly/yearly
>> rollups.  Perhaps there's even an open source project or two
>> implementing this sorta thing?  I've found flewton
>> (https://github.com/flewton/flewton), which is possibly relevant, but
>> my Java skills are pretty non-existent so I'm having a hard time
>> figuring it out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
>>
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