John,
Just wondering what you are using if not phpcassa? Thanks! David From: John Lennard [mailto:j...@gravitate.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 6:41 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: cassandra & php Hi, How does this connection pooling fit in with the TSocketPool.php classes? Or am I off the wicket here? These are just a few of my observations in relation to what i have seen so far when working with PHP and Cassandra. I have been working with cassandra / php for the last 8 months now in a project, and while not using phpcassa, it strikes me that the Thrift layer in php may need some energy directed at it. Reads in particular do seem noticeably slow and i am not sure if this is tied in with the php socket implementation, how my test cluster is currently set up or how i am currently working with and structuring my data. I also wonder if there are other aspects of the thrift layer that could pushed into a native module as there is still seems to be lots php code present in the thrift classes. Another observation I have made during this work is that xdebug has a significant effect on performance, which can make profiling a little more challenging. Regards John On 18/02/2011, at 10:49 AM, Tyler Hobbs wrote: what i'm not entirely happy with in using php versus java/hector is that there isn't any connection pooling. maybe that's just me and my poor skills. Better connection pooling and failover are on the way. You can check on the progress in the connection-pooling branch here: https://github.com/thobbs/phpcassa/tree/connection-pooling I just haven't had time to wrap it up lately, but it should be done soon. -- Tyler Hobbs Software Engineer, DataStax <http://datastax.com/> Maintainer of the pycassa <http://github.com/pycassa/pycassa> Cassandra Python client library
