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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:40:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: cassandra as permanent datastore
From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
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I would say, not stupid at all, with the caveat that it sounds like
you will want to use Hadoop for reporting and we are still working on
Hadoop support.  But that is probably a man-week or two of work, just
waiting for someone to need it badly enough to write it. :)

-Jonathan

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Joe Van Dyk <joe@fixieconsulting.com> wrote=
:
> Hi,
>
> How stupid would it be to use cassandra as a permanent datastore?
>
> Say I have a service that tracks clicks on ads running on other sites.
> =A0I'd need to keep track of who clicked what when and where. =A0And run
> reports on it. =A0Cassandra is attractive because of the built-in
> replication and the high write availability.
>
>
>
> --
> Joe Van Dyk
> http://fixieconsulting.com
>