Thanks much, verifies what I thought it is doing when connecting to a
random node.
Will play with RackAware and DCQUORUM.
Wanted to see if anybody else has a case where they want to connect to
local Data Center always. A case where the Nodes are geographically
apart like A (NY) and D (London). Wan
Lets start with the simple case, all nodes have the same proximity to each other.The client connects to a random node, called the coordinator. When a request is made the coordinator asynchronously sends it to all nodes that are a replica for the requested key. It waits for the response, and in the