FWIW we use Dustin's Java client at Last.fm, alongside a PHP client that uses libketama, and a few other things that also use libketama. Everything works fine.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Sent: 17 November 2008 04:06 To: memcached Subject: Re: Consistent hashing (memcached clients) question On Nov 16, 7:45 pm, Soumen Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me incompatibility is defined as: > > Clients implement consistent hashing in such a way that when in a > caching architecture multiple types of clients (C, PHP, Java, Python) > are used, they do not agree on which key is cached in which memcached > and how backups are selected. This is because clients hash function > differs in implementation while fully implementing consistent hashing > principles. > > Does this make sense? Sure. Do you have a test scenario showing me where I'm not providing the same sequence that libketama does? All I have currently is a test case where it does.
