How does Cassandra handle inter Data Center congestion

I'm going to plagiarize a question previously asked by graham sanderson , I hope he doesn't mind. The question hasn't been answered but it was at the end of a thread that wasn't directly related to this

mixed nodes, some SSD some HD

Using Cassandra 2.0.x If I have a 3 node cluster and 2 of the nodes use spinning drives and 1 of them uses SSD, will the majority of the reads be routed to the SSD node automatically because it has faster responses? TIA, Elliot

Re: mixed nodes, some SSD some HD

r of vnodes per physical node. > > > On 03/04/2014 10:47 PM, Elliot Finley wrote: > >> Using Cassandra 2.0.x >> >> If I have a 3 node cluster and 2 of the nodes use spinning drives and 1 of >> them uses SSD, will the majority of the reads be routed to the

Re: mixed nodes, some SSD some HD

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Russell Bradberry wrote: > >> Are you using the dynamic snitch? Because the SimpleSnitch is the default. >> >> >> >> On March 5, 2014 at 5:27:03 PM, Elliot Finley (efinley.li...@gmail.com) >> wrote: >> >> Keep in mind,

Re: mixed nodes, some SSD some HD

What are the penalties for having them? On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Tyler Hobbs wrote: > >> >> Ah, I missed that part. If the replication factor matches the number of >> nodes in the cluster, then you're correct, it doesn't matter what