Hi all,
I have a question that documentation has not clear answer for. I have
the following requirements:
1. Synchronously store data in datacenter DC1 on 2+ nodes
2. Asynchronously replicate the same data to DC2 and store it on 2+
nodes to act as a hot standby
Now, I have configured keyspaces with o.a.c.l.NetworkTopologyStrategy
with strategy_options=[{DC1:2, DC2:2}] and use LOCAL_QUORUM
consistency level, following documentation here:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/datacenter
Now, how do I assign initial tokens? If I have, say 6 nodes total, 3
in DC1 and 3 in DC2, and create a ring as if all 6 nodes share the
total 2^128 space equally.
Now say node N1:DC2 has key K and is in remote datacenter (for an app
in DC1). Wouldn't Cassandra always forward K to the DC2 node N1 thus
turning asynchronous writes into synchronous ones? Performance impact
will be huge as the latency between DC1 and DC2 is significant.
I hope there's an answer and I'm just missing something. My case falls
under Disaster Recovery in
http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/datacenter but I don't see
how Cassandra will support my use case.
I appreciate any help on this.
Thank you,
Oleg
