Hi all, I am an Apache committer (Apache Synapse ESB, WS All) and working for an organization that develops open-source products. We are interesting in using the Cassandra in our products. We need multi-tenancy support as well as a pluggable authentication and authorization architecture in the Cassandra. We would like to contribute to the Cassandra in our capacity. I have two concerns and am extremely grateful for your help on resolving those.
*Multi-tenancy* I noticed that you are implementing multi-tenancy [1]. Could you please guess that how long it would take to finish to the remaining work? I would like to contribute to that. However, I am a newbie to the Cassandra. Therefore, I do not know how much time it may take to do such a contribution. Would it be possible to support multi-tenancy (work around) with existing implementation? Two vague ideas: (1) qualified keyspaces (by the tenet domain) (2) multiple Cassandra storage configurations in a single node (one per tenant). For both options, the resource hierarchy would be /cassandra/ <cluster_name>/<tenant name (domain)>/keyspaces/<ks_name>/... *Authentication and Authorization * I believe it would be able to plug a custom authentication and authorization implementation through IAuthenticator and IAuthority. I am extremely grateful for your feedback for clearing up my vague ideas and also about the best possible ways to achieve my requirements. Thanks, Indika [1] http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MultiTenant
