The erlang bindings for 0mq aren't very easy to compile on Mac OS X
and last I checked it required some unreleased version of 0mq to work
correctly. We wasted a few cycles on it recently. It all looks good in
theory but in practice it didn't feel like it was ready.

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 0mq is definitely on my list of tech to evaluate when we get around to 
> implementing this feature. I've heard the Erlang bindings are pretty good 
> which is definitely a plus.
>
> --Kevin
> On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Greg Steffensen wrote:
>
>> Have you guys seen the zeromq library?  It's a fast, brokerless message 
>> passing library (the sender can talk directly to the recipient, without a 
>> message queue server in the middle).  That plus protocol buffers might be an 
>> easy way to call out to arbitrary code for mapreduce work, and you'd get the 
>> ability to make the recipient local or remote.  Their user guide actually 
>> suggests that it was inspired by erlang.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Unfortunately that's not really a possibility. We selected Spidermonkey 
>> because it's lightweight and designed for embedded use cases. To do the same 
>> with Rhino would require embedding the JVM which would be problematic to 
>> embed in the same way.
>>
>> I have thought about implementing an external interface for map and reduce 
>> phases similar to Hadoop's streams interface so users could perform maps and 
>> reduces using whatever technology is appropriate for them. Would this work 
>> for your use case?
>>
>> --Kevin
>> On Dec 2, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Hec H wrote:
>>
>> > Just wondering what the level of embed spidermonkey JS engine is within 
>> > riak. Not too sure on the base code or related to C but are their 
>> > opportinites via Java-Erlang interface for a Rhino JS/Java engine.
>> >
>> >
>> >                                        Thanks
>> >
>> >                                          Hec
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