Hi there, I'm using HAProxy for PHP projects to take care of this. It improved connection pooling enormous on the client side: with preserving failover capabilities. Maybe that is something for you to use in combination with PHP.
Good luck! 2012/5/16 Piavlo <lolitus...@gmail.com> > > Hi, > > I'm interested in using some smart proxy cassandra process that could act > as coordinator node and be aware of cluster state. > And run this smart proxy cassandra process on each client side host where > the application(php) with short lived cassandra connections runs. > Besides being aware of cluster state if it could act as coordinator node > it would save unneeded network trips. > And maybe even have an option to take care of hinted handoffs. > IMHO the best candidate for this is the cassandra itself (like it's done > in elasticsearch http://www.elasticsearch.org/** > guide/reference/modules/node.**html<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/modules/node.html> > ) > I also see there was a work done in this direction at > https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/CASSANDRA-535<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-535> > So maybe this is something that is already usable? > > Or maybe there is some third party project that could be used as smart > cassandra proxy? > > Thanks > Alex > -- With kind regards, Robin Verlangen www.robinverlangen.nl