Earnstone Geocandra

Description

Geocandra is a REST based geo-location database service built on top of cassandra. Although Geocandra can be used as an in-memory service it is designed to be run as a REST service allowing easy access from clients like javascript, php, java, etc. Some of it's main strengths are querying for nearest places based on GPS coordinates and finding the nearest place given an IP address.

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How to Use Geocandra

Download the complete application (geocandra-0.1-all.zip) from our repository located here. Extract the files and start/stop the server using the following commands

Usage: server.sh [-d] {start|stop|run|restart|check|supervise} [ CONFIGS ... ] 
$./bin/server.sh start
$./bin/server.sh stop

To check on the server status navigate to http://localhost:43622

A REST client (GeocandraClient) for java can be found in the geocandra-client.jar.

For multi-machine configuration make sure to change the data center and worker ids located in ./config/geocandra.properties