<div dir="ltr">Ohhh okay, for example, Riak _> Swift _> Gluster?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Peter Portante <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pportant@redhat.com" target="_blank">pportant@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Greg Kleiman <<a href="mailto:gkleiman@redhat.com">gkleiman@redhat.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> I agree with Jeff that there are overlaps between NoSQL and gluster,<br>
> but there are customers using NoSQL as a metadata store to front end<br>
> gluster as an object store using the native client.<br>
<br>
</div>We have seen setups like this with Gluster-Swift. The work being done on<br>
Gluster-Swift in the future will go a long way to efficiently using<br>
Gluster as a object store.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-peter<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
> Jeff's suggestion<br>
> of using libgfapi or special translators can add even more features<br>
> and performance.<br>
><br>
> Thanks, Greg<br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Jeff Darcy" <<a href="mailto:jdarcy@redhat.com">jdarcy@redhat.com</a>><br>
> To: "Jay Vyas" <<a href="mailto:jayunit100@gmail.com">jayunit100@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Cc: "<a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:26:47 AM<br>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NoSQL tools that run on Gluster<br>
><br>
> On 05/01/2013 01:50 PM, Jay Vyas wrote:<br>
>> There has been chatter about "X on gluster", where x=mongo, riak,...<br>
>><br>
>> Im wondering - is there a "most popular" or most well tested<br>
>> transactional datastore that runs/leverages gluster ?<br>
>><br>
>> Or is the idea of running a transactional nosql tool on gluster still<br>
>> mostly a fun/cool/interesting thought experiment?<br>
><br>
> I follow developments in the NoSQL world pretty closely, and count many<br>
> people in that space as my friends. This idea comes up often, but<br>
> nobody really pursues it much because what they do and what we do is<br>
> already so similar. The consistent hashing we use in DHT is clearly of<br>
> the same general sort as that used in Cassandra, Riak, or Voldemort.<br>
> Some of the discussions we've had about various forms of replication and<br>
> different consistency models clearly relate well to those same concepts<br>
> in MongoDB or Couchbase. If we're using the same algorithms for things<br>
> like distribution and replication already, why put one on top of the<br>
> other? Putting Cassandra on top of GlusterFS would be too much like<br>
> putting Cassandra on top of itself.<br>
><br>
> That said, there are a couple of related ideas that are somewhat<br>
> interesting. Most have to do with splicing pieces of these related<br>
> technologies together instead of layering them. What if we could layer<br>
> our front end (full POSIX via FUSE plus SMB/NFS support) on top of their<br>
> back end? What if we could put their API on top of our back end with a<br>
> specialized translator or libgfapi, much as we're doing for Swift and<br>
> Hadoop? There are plenty of possibilities like that to explore.<br>
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