Datomic does something similar -- except that instead of updating keys in-place, it only adds new values to Riak and advances the pointer(s) to the current state in ZK. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Deconstructing-Database
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Andrew Berman <rexx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone has explored the idea of using Zookeeper in front of > Riak to handle locking. My thought is that a client goes to Zookeeper to > get a lock on a key before updating. Any other client that wishes to update > the same key must check for the existence of a lock. If it exists, an error > is thrown, if not, then it proceeds. Once the client is finished with the > key, it releases the lock. > > --Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > -- Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/ _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
