Great thread -- thanks for pointing it out! I was referencing consistency without considering durability but that is probably something that should not be overlooked, or if it is, as you suggested, be overlooked as a conscious decision to take on risk.
2010/5/14 Peter Schüller <sc...@spotify.com> > > Not sure if this was mentioned, but MongoDB is strongly consistent while > > Cassandra is eventually consistent -- at least about a month ago when I > > looked at it in more detail, though with vector clocks in 0.7, this may > be > > less of an issue. > > Did Mongo switch away from the "fsync() every now and then, let's hope > broken values don't parse as bson" consistency semantics? > > Last time I looked mongodb, which was admittedly more than a single > month ago, you definitely did not want it if you cared about strong > consistency in the sense of durability: > > http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/thread/460dbd49a5b6b267/daca5d5155d7e66e > > -- > / Peter Schuller aka scode >
