The write path for counters is different than non counter fields, for
background
http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cassandra_sf_counters.pdf
The write is applied on the leader *and then* replicated to the other replicas.
This was controlled by a config setting called replicate
Hi
As I understand that writes in cassandra are directly pushed to memory
and using counters with CL.ONE shouldn't take the read latency for
counters in account. So Writes for incrementing counters with CL.ONE
should basically be really fast.
But in my 8 node cluster(16 core/32G ram/cassandra1.0.