All you heard is right... You are not overriding Cassandra's token assignment by saying here is your token...
Logic is: Calculate a token for the given key... find the node in each region independently (If you use NTS and if you set the strategy options which says you want to replicate to the other region)... Search for the ranges in each region independntly Replicate the data to that node. For multi DC cassandra needs nodes to be equally partitioned within each dc (If you care that the load equally distributed).... as well as there shouldn't be any collusion of tokens within a cluster.... The documentation tried to explain the same and the example in the documentation. Hope this clarifies... More examples if it helps.... DC1 Node 1 : token 0 DC1 Node 2 : token 8.. DC2 Node 1 : token 4.. DC2 Node 1 : token 12.. or DC1 Node 1 : token 0 DC1 Node 2 : token 1.. DC2 Node 1 : token 8.. DC2 Node 1 : token 7.. Regards, </VJ> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:28 PM, AJ <a...@dude.podzone.net> wrote: > On 6/15/2011 12:14 PM, Vijay wrote: > > Correction.... > > "The problem in the above approach is you have 2 nodes between 12 to 4 in > DC1 but from 4 to 12 you just have 1" > > should be > > "The problem in the above approach is you have 1 node between 0-4 (25%) > and and one node covering the rest which is 4-16, 0-0 (75%)" > > Regards, > </VJ> > > > Ok, I think you are saying that the computed token range intervals are > incorrect and that they would be: > > DC1 > *node 1 = 0 Range: (4, 16], (0, 0] > > node 2 = 4 Range: (0, 4] > > DC2 > *node 3 = 8 Range: (12, 16], (0, 8] > > node 4 = 12 Range: (8, 12] > > If so, then yes, this is what I am seeking to confirm since I haven't found > any documentation stating this directly and that reference that I gave only > implies this; that is, that the token ranges are calculated per data center > rather than per cluster. I just need someone to confirm that 100% because > it doesn't sound right to me based on everything else I've read. > > SO, the question is: Does Cass calculate the consecutive node token ranges > A.) per cluster, or B.) for the whole data center? > > From all I understand, the answer is B. But, that documentation (reprinted > below) implies A... or something that doesn't make sense to me because of > the token placement in the example: > > "With NetworkTopologyStrategy, you should calculate the tokens the nodes in > each DC independantly... > > DC1 > node 1 = 0 > node 2 = 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 > > DC2 > node 3 = 1 > node 4 = 850705917302346158658436518579 > 42052865" > > > However, I do see why this would be helpful, but first I'm just asking if > this token assignment is absolutely mandatory > or if it's just a technique to achieve some end. > > > >
