[hibernate-dev] Re: [infinispan-dev] Hibernate Search alternative Directory distribution

On 13 Jul 2009, at 17:10, Łukasz Moreń wrote: > 1. share the same grid cache between the master and the slaves > > Infinispan has a flat structure. The key has to contain: > - the index name > - the chunk name > Both with essentially be the unique identifier. > > I suppose in this idea all indexes are stored in a one single grid. > What about one Infinispan grid per directory, similarly to > RAMDirectory or FSDirectory? IMHO it could make some > simplifications i.e. in metadata or key names. > Are there any Infinispan drawbacks to have a high number of caches > in the network? Sharing JGroups channels can help in that? They already share JGroups channels and other "heavy" components wherever possible. Its just that configuration becomes more of a pain, etc. When you say one cache per index, how do you define an index? Does 1 index mean all indexed data for a single java type? In which case couldn't these scale up dynamically and potentially on-demand? No wait - these are fixed in Hibernate Search on startup, correct?