[rabbitmq-discuss] couple of questions (was: Re: RabbitMQ 2.6.0 is released)

Jerry Kuch jerryk at vmware.com
Wed Sep 7 21:31:04 BST 2011


> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 00:54, Murthy Jayanthi <mjayanthi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Does RabbitMQ support  an external persistence adapter for persist
> > message delivery to avoid message guaranty.
> > 2. The idea is to use Cassandra replicated storage for managing the persist
> > messages.
>
> RabbitMQ is generic message broker which supports many
> messaging patterns, it would be unlikely that a simple k-v message
> store (like cassandra) would behave performant with load patterns
> that RabbitMQ creates.

To extend Marek's point, using an RDBMS as a peristence layer is also
unlikely to agree well with the sorts of load profiles that RabbitMQ
sees in many cases.  A nice discussion of some of the related
considerations can be found here:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/01/20/rabbitmq-backing-stores-databases-and-disks/

Best regards,
Jerry


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