Re: Riak Heterogeneity

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Russo
Thanks Justin. It should be relatively straightforward to work around this current limitation in our ops plan. As a sidenote, given that Dynamo forms the basis for much of Riak's design, I think that it would be beneficial to publish a document outlining the design differences between these sy

Re: Riak Heterogeneity

2010-08-21 Thread Justin Sheehy
Hi, Michael. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Michael Russo wrote: > In the Dynamo design, the number of vnodes per physical node can be tweaked > to satisfy the heterogeneity principle. > Is there any way to do something similar with Riak? This is something that we think is an important idea

Re: Riak Heterogeneity

2010-08-20 Thread Alexander Sicular
Would also like to hear more about this... -Alexander On Aug 17, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Michael Russo wrote: > The Dynamo paper lists heterogeneity as a key principle of the design. > > From the paper: > > "Heterogeneity: The system needs to be able to exploit heterogeneity in the > infrastructur