QUORUM of ReplicationFactor=1 is 1. All consistency levels should
work fine as long as RF <= node count. If you are seeing it work at
CL.ONE but not at QUORUM then that is probably a bug.
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Lucas Nodine <lucasnod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Partially Resolved...
>
> Taking your advise (both Jonathan and Aaron's) I was able to track the
> problem down. The issue was that running insert (also batch_mutate) and
> using a consistencylevel of quorum on a cluster of 1 server with a
> replication factor of 1 does not work. Well, that is not accurate, let me
> explain. I believe the problem lies in the description of QUORUM as defined
> in the API on the wiki "Ensure that the write has been written to N / 2 + 1
> replicas before responding to the client."
>
> 1/2+1 = 1.5 -- One server can never accomplish this. I believe I read
> something about this somewhere in all the documentation, but it would be
> really handy to have received an error telling me that it was impossible
> (assuming this was actually the issue). I am by far, not familiar with the
> replication model, but if it is not by design, someone let me know and I'll
> report it.
>
> Thx,
>
> - LN
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Lucas Nodine <lucasnod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> I have done it successfully with insert, but I have not tried it with
>> mutate. I'll give that a try tonight.
>>
>> Thanks
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would try to get a single hard-coded column to insert, before doing
>>> something more complex.
>>>
>>> You can also enable debug logging on the server and see if that
>>> matches what you want the client to be doing.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Lucas Nodine <lucasnod...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello all,
>>> >
>>> > I have posted the following to Stackoverflow, but thought that I would
>>> > also
>>> > try the list. If you have any suggestions, please let me know
>>> >
>>> > I am working with Cassandra 0.6.5 using the thrift interface. I am
>>> > trying to
>>> > use the batch_mutate method call, however, when I execute it, I receive
>>> > no
>>> > error message. This leads me to believe it worked. When I check using
>>> > the
>>> > CLI, there is nothing there. Is there something wrong with my code or
>>> > format
>>> > of the mutation_map that anyone can see? Any ideas?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance,
>>> >
>>> > LN
>>> >
>>> > public void Update(string keyspace, Common.NetworkPackage.MetaAsset ma)
>>> > {
>>> > Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string, List<Mutation>>> package;
>>> > Dictionary<string, List<Mutation>> packageEntry;
>>> > Dictionary<string, object>.Enumerator en;
>>> > List<Mutation> mutList;
>>> > Mutation mut;
>>> > DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
>>> >
>>> > if(!ma.Fields.ContainsKey("$guid"))
>>> > throw new ArgumentException("The field $guid is not present");
>>> >
>>> > mutList = new List<Mutation>();
>>> > en = ma.Fields.GetEnumerator();
>>> >
>>> > while(en.MoveNext())
>>> > {
>>> > if (en.Current.Value == null)
>>> > continue;
>>> > mut = new Mutation();
>>> > mut.Column_or_supercolumn = new ColumnOrSuperColumn();
>>> > mut.Column_or_supercolumn.Column = new Column();
>>> > mut.Column_or_supercolumn.Column.Name =
>>> > _utf8.GetBytes(en.Current.Key);
>>> >
>>> > if (en.Current.Value == null)
>>> > mut.Column_or_supercolumn.Column.Value = null;
>>> > else
>>> > mut.Column_or_supercolumn.Column.Value =
>>> > ToBytes(en.Current.Value);
>>> >
>>> > mut.Column_or_supercolumn.Column.Timestamp =
>>> > Utilities.Timestamp(now);
>>> >
>>> > mutList.Add(mut);
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > packageEntry = new Dictionary<string, List<Mutation>>();
>>> > packageEntry.Add("MetaAsset", mutList);
>>> >
>>> > package = new Dictionary<string, Dictionary<string,
>>> > List<Mutation>>>();
>>> > package.Add((string)ma.Fields["$guid"], packageEntry);
>>> >
>>> > Console.WriteLine(Utilities.ExportBulkMutate("LawOffice", package));
>>> >
>>> > _client.batch_mutate(keyspace, package, ConsistencyLevel.QUORUM);
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > The above code produces (columns are name:value @ timestamp, value
>>> > consists
>>> > of a type:and a representation of the actual value):
>>> >
>>> > LawOffice : {
>>> > Row=08469fba50f448be8943614abd059d10 : {
>>> > CF=MetaAsset : {
>>> > $guid : String:08469fba50f448be8943614abd059d10 @ 93
>>> > $creator : String:Lucas @ 93
>>> > $previousversion : String:00000000000000000000000000000000 @ 93
>>> > $nextversion : String:00000000000000000000000000000000 @ 93
>>> > $etag : String:0 @ 93
>>> > $length : Int32:123456789 @ 93
>>> > $extension : String:.odt @ 93
>>> > $created : DateTime:90 @ 93
>>> > $modified : DateTime:90 @ 93
>>> > $lastaccess : DateTime:90 @ 93
>>> > $title : String:Title @ 93
>>> > $tags : List`1:tag1,tag2,tag3 @ 93
>>> > }
>>> > }
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Ellis
>>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>>> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
>>> http://riptano.com
>
--
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com
