Would Twitter's snowflake @ https://github.com/twitter/snowflake help here?
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Ioan Eugen Stan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Norman, > > 2012/1/25 Norman Maurer <[email protected]>: >> Hi Ioan, >> >> did you read this: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01967.html > > I have read it now. I will look over the code for H1 [1] and also try > to contact the developer to get some info about how well it scales. > > The other idea that I had in regard to uid generation is very well > described by Ted in this mail [2]: create servers that do uid > generation and use Zk to coordinate them, somewhat similar to what > region servers do in HBase. Each server will be responsible for > creating uids for a shard of mailboxes. > > Clients will interrogate ZK to get the list of servers and then > connect to the server they need for each mailbox. > >> >> bye, >> norman > > > [1] https://github.com/talis/H1 > [2] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/zookeeper-user/201201.mbox/browser > > -- > Ioan Eugen Stan > http://ieugen.blogspot.com/ -- Harsh J Customer Ops. Engineer, Cloudera
