libhashring - high performance consistent hashing

In a previous post I talked about the need to shard Redis data and how I accomplished this by adding shard/hashing support to erldis, an Erlang client for Redis. This solution proved to work well, it distributed our data very well amongst many Redis servers – but there was one problem. Performance. In the change I made to erldis, the hash ring was stored in ETS (an erlang memory store) and anytime a key was hashed, the ring had to be retrieved from ETS....

June 4, 2011 · Chris Moos