Embedded or Remote Cassandra Instances are now Supported in Virgil
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Embedded or Remote Cassandra Instances are now Supported in Virgil
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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:
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:
Let us know what you think.
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