Re: Distributed lock for cassandra

2013-08-12 Thread srmore
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:31 PM, srmore wrote: > >> There are some operations that demand the use lock and I was wondering >> whether Cassandra has a built in locking mechanism. After hunting the web >> for a while it appears that the answer

Re: Distributed lock for cassandra

2013-08-12 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:31 PM, srmore wrote: > There are some operations that demand the use lock and I was wondering > whether Cassandra has a built in locking mechanism. After hunting the web > for a while it appears that the answer is no, although I found this > outdated wiki page which des

Distributed lock for cassandra

2013-08-12 Thread srmore
All, There are some operations that demand the use lock and I was wondering whether Cassandra has a built in locking mechanism. After hunting the web for a while it appears that the answer is no, although I found this outdated wiki page which describes the algorithm http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra