Though cassandra can work but to me it looks like you could use a persistent queue for example (rabbitMQ) to implement this. All your workers can subscribe to a queue. In fact, why not just MySQL?
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Jan Algermissen <jan.algermis...@nordsc.com > wrote: > Hi, > > maybe someone knows a nice solution to the following problem: > > I have N worker processes that are intentionally masterless and do not > know about each other - they are stateless and independent instances of a > given service system. > > These workers need to poll an event feed, say about every 10 seconds and > persist a state after processing the polled events so the next worker knows > where to continue processing events. > > I would like to use C*'s CAS feature to coordinate the workers and protect > the shared state (a row or cell in a C* key space, too). > > Has anybody done something similar and can suggest a 'clever' data model > design and interaction? > > > > Jan
