Hy Raul, it could be a valid extension of the Service Grid of Ignite ( if I understand the point), imho.
2015-09-20 14:37 GMT+02:00 Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org>: > Hey Igniters, > > Lalit Kumar Jha expressed interest [1] in contributing to ticket IGNITE-815 > [2] which aims to bring in Reactive Streams to Ignite. > > I wanted to start a brainstorm about which functionalities we'd like to > cover. > > Off the top of my head, I can think of merging, filtering, sorting, > batching, grouping, etc. on Data Streams, Ignite Messages and Events. Also, > integration with Continuous Queries would be useful. > > Furthermore, I wanted to ask the community if at this point we feel > comfortable with Reactive Streams per-se or we prefer to go with RxJava for > now. Reactive Streams is a proposed standard whose main Java implementation > and is slowly gaining traction (e.g. vert.x [3] and MongoDB integrations > [4]), whereas RxJava is an already mature and production-tested > implementation of the initial ReactiveX design by Microsoft [5] with 7000+ > stars on GitHub. > > RxJava is the foundation of Hystrix [6], a powerful library for latency and > fault tolerance management. RxJava does not implement Reactive Streams as > of 1.x (as they predated it), but they've vowed support for 2.x [7]. > Moreover, there's already an adapter which passes the TCK [8]. > > My take is as follows. I'd like to follow the Reactive Streams standard, > but I wouldn't like to lose support for Hystrix (hopefully it'll eventually > be migrated to Reactive Streams too). So an option is to go with the RxJava > + adapter design for now to get the best of both worlds. Once RxJava 2.0 is > out, we can drop the adapter out of the picture. > > Thoughts? > > [1] > > http://apache-ignite-developers.2346864.n4.nabble.com/Hello-Apache-Ignite-Dev-tp3137p3315.html > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-815 > [3] http://vertx.io/docs/vertx-reactive-streams/java/ > [4] https://mongodb.github.io/mongo-java-driver-reactivestreams/ > [5] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609.aspx > [6] https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix > [7] https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Reactive-Streams > [8] https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJavaReactiveStreams > > Regards, > > *Raúl Kripalani* > Apache Camel PMC Member & Committer | Enterprise Architect, Open Source > Integration specialist > http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk >
