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DZone > Database Zone > Embedded or Remote Cassandra Instances are now Supported in Virgil

Embedded or Remote Cassandra Instances are now Supported in Virgil

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Mar. 05, 12 · Database Zone · Interview
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Since Virgil was originally developed as an embedded REST layer for the Cassandra Server, it ran as a daemon inside the server and performed operations directly against the CassandraServer classes. Running in a single JVM had some performance gains over a separate server that communicated over Thrift (either directly or via Hector) since operations didn't have to take a second hop across the network (with the associated marshalling/unmarshalling)

 

We had a request come in to add the ability to run Virgil against a remote Cassandra:
http://groups.google.com/group/virgil-users/browse_thread/thread/d8a99e026567b101

 

That seemed reasonable since there are a lot of existing cassandra clusters and users may just want to add a REST layer to support webapp/gui access or SOLR integration.

 

To support those cases, we added run-modes to the configuration:
http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/virgil/wiki/runmode

 

Let us know what you think.
 

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