Because it is extremely well-understood, handles a lot of the reliability needs itself, and nothing more is required for the application.
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:02 PM, ChingShen <chingshenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why? What reasons did you choose TCP? > > Shen > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In 0.6 gossip is over TCP. >> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Ashwin Jayaprakash >> <ashwin.jayaprak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hey guys! I have a simple question. I'm a casual observer, not a real >> > Cassandra user yet. So, excuse my ignorance. >> > >> > I see that the Gossip feature uses UDP. I was curious to know if you >> > guys >> > faced issues with unreliable transports in your production clusters? >> > Like >> > faulty switches, dropped packets etc during heavy network loads? >> > >> > If I'm not mistaken are all client reads/writes doing point-to-point >> > over >> > TCP? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Ashwin. >> > >> > >> > > > > >
