if your test case is correct then it sounds like a bug to me. With one node, unless you're writing with CL=0 you should get full consistency.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Hugo <h...@unitedgames.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Being fairly new to Cassandra I have a question on the eventual > consistency. I'm currently performing experiments with a single-node > Cassandra system and a single client. In some of my tests I perform an > update to an existing subcolumn in a row and subsequently read it back from > the same thread. More often than not I get back the value I've written (and > expected), but sometimes it can occur that I get back the old value of the > subcolumn. Is this a bug or does it fall into the eventual consistency? > > I'm using Hector 0.6.0-14 on Cassandra 0.6.3 on a single disk, double-core > Windows machine with a Sun 1.6 JVM. All reads and writes are quorum (the > default), but I don't think this matters in my setup. > > Groets, Hugo. >