Thomas, i am curious as well. AFAIK, cassandra works well with OpenJDK. Can you please elaborate what you concerns are for #1?
Thanks, Dims On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@fastmail.com> wrote: > I'm curious is there any more detail about #1 below anywhere online? > > Does cassandra use some features of the JVM that the openJDK version > doesn't support? Something else? > > -Josh > > Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 10/07/2015 07:36 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> >>> Several months ago I proposed an experiment [0] to see if switching >>> the data model for the Nova scheduler to use Cassandra as the backend >>> would be a significant improvement as opposed to the current design >>> >> >> This is probably right. I don't know, I'm not an expert in Nova, or its >> scheduler. However, to make it possible for us (ie: downstream >> distributions and/or OpenStack users) to use Cassandra, you have to >> solve one of the below issues: >> >> 1/ Cassandra developers upstream should start caring about OpenJDK, and >> make sure that it is also a good platform for it. They should stop >> caring only about the Oracle JVM. >> >> ... or ... >> >> 2/ Oracle should make its JVM free software. >> >> As there is no hope for any of the above, Cassandra is a no-go for >> downstream distributions. >> >> So, by all means, propose a new back-end, implement it, profit. But that >> back-end cannot be Cassandra the way it is now. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Thomas Goirand (zigo) >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: >> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims
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