Virtual Nodes Strategies
Interesting post by Acuno on 3 strategies for virtual nodes:
At Acunu we wanted to bring virtual nodes support to Cassandra to alleviate some of these operations headaches and I spent some time looking at some of the different approaches we could take. The three main variants that I found could be broadly divided into the following three categories: 1) random token assignment; 2) fixed partition assignment; 3) automatic sharding
Original title and link: Virtual Nodes Strategies (©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.acunu.com/2/post/2012/07/virtual-nodes-strategies.html