Hi, It would be great to be able to use AWS keyspace for Temporal. I found some posts about it but I haven’t found a feature request to have the follow-up. Thanks!

It seems from that webpage that Keyspaces supports LWT actually: “Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) fully supports compare and set functionality on INSERT and UPDATE commands, which are known as lightweight transactions (LWTs) in Apache Cassandra. As a serverless offering, Amazon Keyspaces (f…

I’m pretty sure that Temporal needs conditional DELETE as well. I think there were other limitations that were showstoppers. If anyone wants to make this work we would welcome a contribution.

We were considering using AWS Keyspaces as persistence store for Temporal as well. That same AWS document about the differences between Keyspaces and Cassandra now states: Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) fully supports compare and set functionality on INSERT , UPDATE , and DELETE commands,…

Sorry, realized that you were referring to the Batch section specifically, and that still states: Only unconditional INSERT , UPDATE , or DELETE commands are permitted in a batch. So I assume that is still a showstopper? :cry:

Yes. Temporal relies on conditional batches very heavily.

Thanks for the confirmation. We are really looking for a managed solution for the DB for our Temporal deployment; between RDS/Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL what would be the main considerations for picking the right solution from a Temporal point-of-view?

The main consideration if any of these DBs can support the maximum update rate your use case needs.

AWS Keyspace as managed cassandra for Temporal

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maxim March 19, 2021, 12:02am 2

It is not possible until AWS Keyspaces adds support for LWT. See the Batch section from the Functional Differences: Amazon Keyspaces versus Apache Cassandra page.

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