[hibernate-dev] [infinispan-dev] Election of Hibernate Search "master" indexer on top of Infinispan

[Manik Surtani]

One way to do this is to use the JGroups coordinator as the master...

On 6 Aug 2009, at 15:59, Sanne Grinovero wrote:

> Hello,
> from what I recall of latest updates about the creation of an
> Infinispan-backed Hibernate Search DirectoryProvider
> to store Lucene's indexes, you're going to focus on having one
> "Master" indexer which will take care of all the writing
> to the index.
> So Infinispan will take care of safely replicating the index to slave
> nodes, but IMHO we should also consider the way the "Master" is being
> selected; from my understanding the master node has to be configured
> differently, this is not going to make it safer and
> is a pain to manage in a cloud environment.
> AFAIK the JBoss Cache has some code to "elect" a master node for buddy
> replication, would it be possible to expose the same
> logic in Infinispan's API to make sure to auto-discover and auto-elect
> the "Hibernate Search Master Node" ?
>
> Something like "whoever is the owner of this marker token is the
> master"? Would that make sense?
>
> Sanne
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