On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:02:04PM -0800, Han Zhou wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > +  <p>
> > > +    Clusters larger than 5 servers will also work, with every 2 added
> > > +    servers allowing the cluster to tolerate 1 more failure, but
> > > +    performance decreases, especially write performance.
> >
> > Should it be clear that read performance should never be impacted?
> > And is the performance drop supposed to be linear? If yes, then it
might be
> > justified to add more nodes to satisfy super large deployments whenever
> > needed? Although I believe 5 nodes are good enough for most large
> > deployments :)
>
> It's a little early to speculate on the performance of the
> implementation, since it isn't implemented yet, but I'll try to add more
> about performance.

Understood.

>
> There's also some question about the ideal mix between clustering and
> replication.

Combination of clustering and replication sounds good. So HVs can read from
a more flexible number of replications, and under circumstances where
occasional write is needed, HVs can use a separate channel to write to the
cluster. Is this a valid direction to take?
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