Cool - thanks to all for the replies. I believe I have what I need now.
Philip
On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Guillermo Winkler
wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> From http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureOverview
>
> Quorum write: blocks until quorum is reached
>
> By my understanding if you
> Doesn't this mean that the read does not "reflect the most recent write"?
Yes.
A write that fails is not a write.
> If it were to have read the newer data from the 1 node and then afterwards
> read the old data from the other 2 then there is a consistency problem, but
> in the example you g
Isn't it cheaper to retry the mutation on _any exception_ than to have a
transaction in place for the majority of non failing writes?
The special case to be considered is obviously counters which are not
idempotent
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2495
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:
The "issue" is that it is possible for a quorum write to return an
error, but for the result of the write to still be reflected in the
view seen by the client. There is really no performant way around this
(although reading at ALL can make it much less frequent). Guaranteeing
complete success or fa
Hi Philip,
>From http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureOverview
*Quorum write*: blocks until quorum is reached
By my understanding if you _did_ a quorum write it means it successfully
completed.
Guille
I *think* we're saying the same thing here. The addition of the word
> "successful"
Hi Derek -- thanks. More inline.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:52:49PM -0600, Derek Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Philip O'Toole wrote:
>
> > But consider this. Say I have a replication factor of 3. I request a
> > QUORUM write, and it fails because the write only reaches 1 no
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Philip O'Toole wrote:
> But consider this. Say I have a replication factor of 3. I request a
> QUORUM write, and it fails because the write only reaches 1 node. Perhaps
> there is a temporary partition in my cluster. Now, asynchronously, a
> different reader perf
