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. :) > > > -- > Manik Surtani > ma...@jboss.org > twitter.com/maniksurtani > > Lead, Infinispan > http://www.infinispan.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Galder Zamarreño Sr. Software Engineer Infinispan, JBoss Cache _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev