[zeromq-dev] Consistent Hashing & 0MQ

[Martin Sustrik]

On 12/22/2010 02:33 AM, fokenrute wrote:
> Hi,
>      As an exercice to familiarize myself with 0MQ, I try to code a
> simple Memcached-like distributed in-memory
> key-value store. The most staightforward architecture I could figure is
> a OMQ device distributing requests
> to backends, which are simple processes managing a data structure that
> store key-value pairs.
> The problem is that I want to use consistent hashing to balance the load
> between the backends but
> 0MQ XREQ sockets use round-robin to thid end. So, is there a simple way
> to use consistent hashing
> instead of round-robin with XREQ sockets ?

You can simply rewrite the algorithm in xreq.cpp. However, it's not 
clear how such a system would work in real-world deployment where worker 
nodes occur and disappear randomly.

Martin