per-keyspace authentication will be basically zero overhead after you connect, and the default will be "allow everyone" just like now.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Joe Stump <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
