RandomPartitioner is included for backwards compatibility, though not suggested for new projects. As far as I know Murmur is faster and offers less hotspots in token allocation.
Cheers, Russ On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Romain Hardouin <romainh...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Hi all, > > cassandra.yaml mentions that the new token allocation algorithm is only > supported with the Murmur3Partitioner [1]. > When looking at the commit [2] I see that IPartitioner interface is used. > I do see references to Murmur3Partitioner but only in tests classes. > > What would prevent to use RandomPartitioner? > > Thanks, > > Romain > > [1] https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/conf/cassandra.yaml#L35 > [2] > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/9a3fa887cfa03c082f249d1d4003d87c14ba5d24 >
