Re: Connecting to a single host vs balancing requests

2014-10-08 Thread Lukas J. Dickie
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Re: Connecting to a single host vs balancing requests

2014-10-08 Thread John Daily
If you can help us what goal is trying to be achieved by taking that approach, perhaps we can refute the logic (or find a better solution). It sounds suspiciously like someone is trying to avoid the complexities of siblings and conflict resolution (a goal which your architecture doesn't actually ac

Re: Connecting to a single host vs balancing requests

2014-10-07 Thread Geoff Garbers
Nope, the reads will be randomly distributed through the other four nodes (riak2 through to riak5 - selected from within a hard-coded list of host names). I sincerely doubt our workload would require some sort of complicated workload set-up. As for your question as to why I'm doing this - I don't

Re: Connecting to a single host vs balancing requests

2014-10-07 Thread Sargun Dhillon
When you do read / modify / writes, are you also planning on sending the relevant read through one node only? In that case, your update latency might suffer if the egress queues of your designated node get backed up on writes, waiting for a very low cost read query. You're more likely to get awkwa

Connecting to a single host vs balancing requests

2014-10-07 Thread Geoff Garbers
Hi all. Apologies if I'm not using the mailing list correctly - this is the first time I'm posting to a mailing list. We're in the process of redeveloping our systems using Riak, and will be using five nodes initially. Let's call these nodes riak1 through to riak5. Our read/write/delete distribut