Unless you need your user identifiers to be sequential for some reason, I would save yourself the headache of this kind of complexity and just use UUIDs if you have to generate an identifier.
On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Aklin_81 wrote: > Hi all, > To generate new keys/ UserIds for new users on my application, I am > thinking of using a simple synchronized counter that can keep track of > the no. of users registered on my application and when a new user > signs up, he can be allotted the next available id. > > Since Cassandra is eventually consistent, Is this advisable to > implement with Cassandra, but then I could also use stronger > consistency level like quorum or all for this purpose. > > > Please let me know your thoughts and suggesttions.. > > Regards > Asil
