With Auto discovery, you can provide the DC you are local to and it will only use hosts from that.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I want my Thrift client(s) (using hector 1.1-3) to randomly connect to any > node in the Cassandra (1.2.4) cluster. > > 1- One way is that I pass in a comma separated list of hosts and ports to > the CassandraHostConfguration object. > 2- The other option is that I configure the auto discovery of hosts > (through setAutoDiscoverHost and related methods) on > CassandraHostConfguration object while passing only one pair of host/port. > > Is one way better than another or both have their pros and cons according > to the usecase. In case of 1, it can become unwieldy if the cluster grows. > In number 2, would I have to be extra careful while adding/removing nodes > (will it conflict with bootstrapping) or is it business as usual? > > I don't expect to have a multi-DC setup for near future but I believe that > would be one consideration. > > Is there any other method that I am missing? Is it dependent or varies > with the client API that I am using? > > > Thanks a lot. > > Regards, > Shahab >
