Hector is same way, if any node is slow to responds, times out or dies hector will remove it from the pool leaving making it look like cluster dead. The entire fault tolerant part of cassandra would be lost.
Chris On Jun 27, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Michael Dykman <mdyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > NO, really it can't. I know little of Hector, but when using the > datastax driver, Cassandra provides a highly available set of > connections; a single Cassandra session will have explicit connections > to all of the node which make up a given cluster. > > The Cassandra server itself relies on a lot of cross-node talk which > means that they must be visible to each other. In this case, HA proxy > will just get in the way and make you less highly available. > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Richard Jennings > <richardjenni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can a Cassandra client such as Hector operate successfully behind a HA Proxy >> where the cluster is represented by a single IP Address? >> >> Regards > > > > -- > - michael dykman > - mdyk...@gmail.com > > May the Source be with you.
