Using C Client in Lua in Non-Blocking Context

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Aerospike has a page at https://www.aerospike.com/community/labs/aerospike_lua_client.html on getting a C client running in a Lua app.

In particular I would like to run a client within the OpenResty Nginx ecosystem.

QUESTION: Is this approach non-blocking in something like OpenResty, or can it be if not? QUESTION: Is non-blocking the key driver for performance in this context? I am assuming non-blocking is the fastest, but wanted to make sure that assumption was correct.

I was also wondering about the distinction between non-blocking and asynchronous in the C Client context with Lua.

Thank you for any information.

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We have not attempted in-housing running the lab version of the Aerospike lua client in a production environment. The lab code is a proof-of-concept. We’d want to hear from the community any experience, particularly if any special steps are needed for integrating with OpenResty.

Re: performance on blocking/non-blocking calls - even though in theory that async calls allows applications to pump as many requests as possible, it can also easily bring a system to its knees without careful consideration of overloading and throttling. The async models are generally harder to understand and harder to adopt.

In short, Aerospike is already a high performance system, and provide more than plenty for headroom for applications in synchronous environment. This is the best place to start.

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Thank you for the info on this wchu. Is there a preferred platform at Aerospike in which to use a client from? For example, a C client or Java or Lua.

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Java, C#, or C would be the best choices, with the most production deployments. After that, there are also Node.js, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python libraries.

Lua would not be a good choice, since it is not a fully supported SDK.