Re: Consistency Levels and Replication with Down Nodes

2011-06-10 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM, AJ wrote: > It says "all nodes".  Shouldn't it say "replication_factor nodes"? My preferred phrasing would be "all replicas." > I can understand this if the given row already exists from a previous write > and one of the nodes that contains a replica is down.  Bu

Consistency Levels and Replication with Down Nodes

2011-06-10 Thread AJ
The O'Reilly book on Cass says this about READ consistency level ALL: "Query all nodes. Wait for all nodes to respond, and return to the client the record with the most recent timestamp. Then, if necessary, perfrom a read repair in the background. If any nodes fail or respond, fail the read o