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Jonathan Ellis updated CASSANDRA-192:
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> Load balancing
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-192
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-192
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
>             Fix For: 0.5
>
>         Attachments: 192.patch
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> We need to be able to spread load evenly across a cluster to mitigate keys 
> not being uniformly distributed as well as heterogeneous nodes in a cluster.  
> The former is particularly likely to be a problem when using the 
> OrderPreservingPartitioner, since the keys are not randomized by a hash 
> function.
> Avinash suggested three papers on load balancing in this thread: 
> http://groups.google.com/group/cassandra-dev/msg/b3d67acf35801c41
> Of these, the useful ones are
>  http://www.iptps.org/papers-2004/karger-load-balance.pdf (Simple Efficient 
> Load Balancing Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer Systems by David R. Karger and 
> Matthias Ruhl)
>  http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/final-papers/load_balancing.ps (Load 
> Balancing in Structured P2P Systems by Ananth Rao et al)
> The third, 
> http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/final-papers/simple_load_balancing.ps (Simple 
> Load Balancing for Distributed Hash Tables by John Byers et al) is not 
> applicable to Cassandra's design.  ("First, we suggest the direct application 
> of the 'power of two choices' paradigm, whereby an item is stored at the less 
> loaded of two (or more) random alternatives. We then consider how associating 
> a small constant number of hash values with a key can naturally be extended 
> to support other load balancing strategies.")

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