On 20 May 2010 23:16, Ryan Daum <r...@thimbleware.com> wrote: > I personally would love to see Cassandra add the concept of a read-only > 'proxy' node which acts like the embedded ready only mode (Java 'fat > client') but sits as a stand alone server. It would know the the entire ring > and watch Gossip and thus be able to direct requests to the most appropriate > node. This way thrift clients would just connect to localhost, and it would > in turn handle pooling and balancing connections. > > I agree that would be a very desirable feature; app servers could have a local Cassandra node which handled cluster operations. Certainly makes things easier.
It may also reduce network overhead as things could go directly to/from the nodes they needed to rather than via a third node. Mark
