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I read that more as what he normally uses for tests and demos since it can be really easily generated using native SQL functions, and not necessarily his day job. Not that it matters much, I guess, and I agree it'd be neat to see that compared to Cassandra.

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That's pretty much it. No time series just yet, just an existing Mongo set that I'm trying to wrap my head around, and that means picking it up ASAP.

I've messed around with Cassandra, but not in much depth. I ran into the way it treats NULL, and that all searchable fields must be indexed, and put it on the backburner for later.

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