It means waiting for at least Quorum responses including the one data request sent to the "closest" replica. The other replicas are asked to return a digest of the data.
The responses are then reconciled and if a difference is detected columns with the highest timestamps will be returned. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4 Jun 2011, at 04:53, mcasandra wrote: > > Fredrik Stigbäck wrote: >> >> Does reading quorum mean only waiting for quorum respones or does it mean >> quorum respones with same latest timestamp? >> >> Regards >> /Fredrik >> > > Well it depends on how your CL is for writes. If you write with QUORUM and > then read with QUORUM then yes you will get at least one response with > latest timestamp. > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/API http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/API > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Reading-quorum-tp6435568p6436020.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com.
