Try using the cassandra hector client. It has failover and load balancing built in.
http://github.com/rantav/hector <http://github.com/rantav/hector>Tom On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Sonny Heer <sonnyh...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can I accomplish this? > > The way I'm doing it now it is creating a TSocket connection using a > static IP of one of the boxes on Cassandra: > TTransport tr = new TSocket(host, port.intValue()); > TProtocol proto = new TBinaryProtocol(tr); > Cassandra.Client client = new Cassandra.Client(proto); > tr.open(); > > With a larger cluster I would imagine there is another preferred > solution with no single point of failure (e.g. that one box goes > down). > -- Tom Chen Software Architect GOGII, Inc t...@gogii.net 650-468-6318
