Re: ZODB storage for cassandra

Ramon Navarro Bosch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb
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We are starting to use https://www.cockroachlabs.com , I really like the
aproach, have you tried Jim ?

Scales less than /dev/null but we can recover data from there, it has
distributed transactions and supports most SQL syntax!

R

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:07 PM Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Sanjay Rao <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any ZODB storage available for Cassandra ?
>>
>
> No, and I hope there never is.
>
> Cassandra provides linear scaling for writes.
>>
>
> Writing to /dev/null is even faster and scales very well horizontally.
>
> Databases like Cassandra are non-transactional. Among these databases,
> Cassandra provides a weaker level of consistency. See
> https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureOverview.
>
> ZODB is transactional and any storage implementation needs to maintain
> transactional semantics.
>
> NoSQL databases like Cassandra are very good for collecting raw data which
> occurs as a result of discrete events and is never modified (because then
> it wouldn't be raw).  For this kind of data, there is no need for
> consistency between different data. All that matters is durability.  This
> is an important application and it is, IMO, a mistake to use a
> transactional database for this application (unless you're actually
> collecting so little data that write scalability doesn't matter).
>
> Jim
>
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