See this blog post for more information.
Installation
Via npm:
Via git:
git clone http://github.com/bnoguchi/node-hash-ring.git
cd node-hash-ring/src
node-waf configure build
Example
var HashRing = require("./lib/hash_ring"); // Create a cluster of 3 servers weighted so that 127.0.0.2:8080 stores twice as many // keys as 127.0.0.1:8080, and 127.0.0.3:8080 stores 4x as many keys as 127.0.0.1:8080 // and 2x as many keys as 127.0.0.2:8080 var ring = new HashRing({"127.0.0.1:8080": 1, "127.0.0.2:8080": 2, "127.0.0.3:8080":4}); console.log(ring.getNode("users:102") ); // Should be 127.0.0.3:8080
See ./test/test_distribution.js for another example: node test/test_distribution.js
Tests
To run the tests:
License
MIT License
Author
Brian Noguchi