ALL NPPS Members

[Maxim Potekhin <potekhin AT bnl.gov>]

Dear All,

I'm guessing that none of us is currently using Cassandra DB 
(unfortunately!) and it's
underutilized in HEP at present time. I had created a Cassandra-based 
prototype
of the PanDA monitor a few years ago and it performed exceptionally 
well. I still think
the platform has a lot of potential. I like the transparent replication 
(i.e. you don't really
have to do anything after trivially setting up the replica policy when 
you start) and healing
(i.e. if a node fails and gets replaced you once again don't have to do 
anything, it will heal
itself by ingesting its portion of the data automatically from other 
replicas).

There is an upcoming Cassandra workshop in NYC on January 16th. In my 
opinion,
that's a great opportunity for interested members of our community to 
get introduced
to the platform and get information literally from the source. The link:

https://pages.datastax.com/20200116-NAM-NewYork-Event-CassandraDeveloperWorkshop_Registration-LP.html

Best regards,

Maxim