Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 75751 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2010 14:56:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 2 Apr 2010 14:56:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 7063 invoked by uid 500); 2 Apr 2010 14:56:08 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 7040 invoked by uid 500); 2 Apr 2010 14:56:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 7032 invoked by uid 99); 2 Apr 2010 14:56:08 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:56:08 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=10.0 tests=AWL,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of josh.schulz@gmail.com designates 209.85.160.44 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.160.44] (HELO mail-pw0-f44.google.com) (209.85.160.44) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:56:03 +0000 Received: by pwj2 with SMTP id 2so378042pwj.31 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:55:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=7+wJiwSTDrlp88rCv5RW7fCsjLlTC8SVcXw+L8PYsQU=; b=WqJp6Ncy8FDUoKFgHWyviaP4Vf/JpruFnz9mmh5KW1FMabjDBu+h1hyhvl7hHH4iYZ 1GnU9j3vuREbYsq5gxvOdCbl+9m0UvsK1m6hvwogEaMJoqvFK8Uku5B7GJLZkuvLjmD+ HF/LbtC1+Ik6bNkbe72FESa6YEnPn5FyzC7us= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=L2xl6h+jK7DyccKHNEmCMEJRwCA9ghNujnNavDfXLXVWiq2PmtVshIAhpAggPuL2ZL mxsKRq2EtZBYQBhJOtVcFGS/Sp9XCFL2jp/n8ycfy+jhAG6khzmJgh4UisLCNrmlAYfp pOavdXNGdzF3RqerhKM9KDsnzbPwnvHwDur/c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: josh.schulz@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.197.8 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:55:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3A0BD1AF-3DC3-4114-B39B-F1187D7E7E20@ketralnis.com> References: <3A0BD1AF-3DC3-4114-B39B-F1187D7E7E20@ketralnis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:55:42 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 77a3e79bee78d193 Received: by 10.114.186.29 with SMTP id j29mr2390994waf.99.1270220142241; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: Proxy instances? From: Josh To: user@cassandra.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Is the notion here that you'd run all writes/reads through that node and let it decide where to get the data from? I've been working on a C# client library and I've been picking a node at random from the cluster and letting it figure things out. Would a setup like this be better? Keep all the traffic load off of data storing instances or would it be better to point at a load balancer that does it? Or is the carnival approach (Pick a node! Any Node!) better? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM, David King wrote: > Is it possible to have Cassandra instances that serve only as proxies to the rest of the cluster, but have no storage themselves? Maybe with a keyspace length of 0? -- josh @schulz http://schulzone.org