TCP/IP byte over-head v. UDP really isnt that much if your packets are of any significant size (its 30 bytes).
And as others have pointed out you can easily get more over-head with worse results trying to reinvent reliable transport on top of UDP. Remember that TCP/IP has had 30 years of development and tuning. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:39 AM, pankajsoni0126 <pankajsoni0...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am working on version 0.7.6 of cassandra. I have been looking into the code > to identify communication between nodes. > > it seems to me that both inter-node and servernode-client communication > happens using thrift protocol, is my understanding correct? > > and the gossiper communication takes place using tcp and message queue? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Inter-node-communication-over-UDP-tp6358459p6384978.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > -- It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue.
