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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:31:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: handling client network connections in Cassandra
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You might want to build on top of something like Hector that handles
the low level pooling, failover, etc. already instead of raw Thrift.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Amol Deshpande
<amol.deshpande@gazillion.com> wrote:
> As I've mentioned before, I'm looking at implementing a =A0protobuf
> interface for clients to talk to Cassandra. Looking at the source, I
> don't see a network thread/connection pool that I could easily piggyback
> on. This is probably because both thrift and avro seem to have their own
> internal connection management.
>
> Any opinions on apache MINA ?
>
> Thanks,
> -amol
>


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Jonathan Ellis
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co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com