On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Alexander Vushkan wrote:
...but authentication support would be nice to have...
I'll continue to object to this. If you're considering running Cassandra (or MySQL or Reddis or Memcache or MemcacheDB or ...) on an open network Ur Doin' It Wrong. This is what VPN's were created for. Nobody in their right mind runs stuff like this, in production, exposed to the outside world.
Cassandra was built for performance and adding this authentication stuff will do nothing but be an unneeded performance hit for a use case that the project shouldn't be fulfilling.
--Joe
