Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior

Re:Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior by zikzikzik on Friday June 05, 2015 @07:26AM (#9664868)

This Team Used Apache Cassandra Without Reading The Fine Manual… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

  “You honestly expected that adopting a data store at your scale would not require you to learn all of its internals?”

These aren't even internals, these are basic facts about Cassandra.

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Re:Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior by dvirsky on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:06AM (#9664974)

I do believe Cassandra requires a much more intimate knowledge of its internals if you want to do anything serious with it - more so than any other database I've worked with.

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Re:Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior by threeseed on Friday June 05, 2015 @08:30AM (#9665072)

I have to agree. But with the clarification that it isn't significantly more. Spend a few days and you will be an expert.

And I think it's worth noting that the "serious" things you would do on Cassandra more often than not you couldn't do on most other databases.

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Re:Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior by robusto on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:23AM (#9666049)

I agree as well. However, it seems a common mistake to assume you can just "deploy", especially coming from traditional RDBMS.

Great power, great responsibility.

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Re:Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior by cwyers on Friday June 05, 2015 @10:44AM (#9665810)

Some of what the article suggests (their own serialization format, using COMPACT STORAGE) isn't in or directly contradicts what the manual suggests to do. This isn't just a case where reading the documentation would tell you everything they found worked for them.

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