Node side processing

[David Semeria]

Hi List,

I was wondering whether there have been any past proposals for 
implementing node side processing (NSP) in C*. By NSP, I mean the 
passing a reference to a Java class which would then process the result 
set before it being returned to the client.

In our particular use case our clients typically loop through result 
sets of a million or more rows to produce a tiny amount of output (sums, 
means, variance, etc). The bottleneck -- quite obviously -- is the need 
to transfer a million rows to the client before processing can take 
place. It would be extremely useful to execute this processing on the 
coordinator node and only transfer the results to the client.

I mention this here because I can imagine other C* users having similar 
requirements.

Thanks

D.