RE: Replication lag between data center

2016-05-19 Thread SEAN_R_DURITY
Just wanted to chime in that this is a very well-written and explained answer. Nice job, Jeff! Sean Durity From: Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:41 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Replication lag between data center Cassandra isn’t a

Re: Replication lag between data center

2016-05-18 Thread Jeff Jirsa
Cassandra isn’t a traditional DB – it doesn’t “replicate” in the same way that a relational DB replicas. Cassandra clients send mutations (via native protocol or thrift). Those mutations include a minimum consistency level for the server to return a successful write. If a write says “Consisten