I've just created http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16815

The document title is temporary and I'm open to suggestions for different names.

Feel free to add more thoughts/comments to it.

I'll add a link from the main wiki now.

On May 19, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:

> 
> On 19 May 2011, at 11:14, Bela Ban wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/19/11 12:02 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> 
>>>> I don't think this makes sense as (1) data sets in replicated mode are
>>>> usually small and (2) Infinispan's focus is on distributed data.
>>> 
>>> I think in both cases (repl and dist) it still may make sense in some 
>>> cases.  E.g., in dist, if a node joins, existing owners could, rather than 
>>> push data to the joiner, just push a list of {key: version} tuples, which 
>>> may be significantly smaller than the values.
>> 
>> 
>> How does it know which keys to send ? It doesn't know the joiner's local 
>> data, so it would have to do a key-by-key comparsion of the joiner's 
>> local data with its own data, akin to what rsync does. This only makes 
>> sense if the data to be shipped to the joiner is large.
> 
> Yes, it needs to be a configurable option.  E.g., if you are storing stock 
> prices keyed on ticker symbol/timestamp, this isn't worth it.
> 
> If you are storing DVDs keyed on title, it certainly is.  :)
> 
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