Like everything else in Cassandra, If you need full consistency you need to make sure that you have the right combination of (write consistency level) + (read consistency level)
if
W = write consistency level
R = read consistency level
N = replication factor
then
W + R > N
Shimi
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Tamar Fraenkel <ta...@tok-media.com>wrote:
> Hi!
> Asking again, as I didn't get responses :)
>
> I have a ring with 3 nodes and replication factor of 2.
> I have counter cf with the following definition:
>
> CREATE COLUMN FAMILY tk_counters
> with comparator = 'UTF8Type'
> and default_validation_class = 'CounterColumnType'
> and key_validation_class = 'CompositeType(UTF8Type,UUIDType)'
> and replicate_on_write = true;
>
> In my code (Java, Hector), I increment a counter and then read it.
> Is it possible that the value read will be the value before increment?
> If yes, how can I ensure it does not happen. All my reads and writes are
> done with consistency level one.
> If this is consistency issue, can I do only the actions on tk_counters
> column family with a higher consistency level?
> What does replicate_on_write mean? I thought this should help, but maybe
> even if replicating after write, my read happen before replication
> finished and it returns value from a still not updated node.
>
> My increment code is:
> Mutator<Composite> mutator =
> HFactory.createMutator(keyspace,
> CompositeSerializer.get());
> mutator.incrementCounter(key,"tk_counters", columnName, inc);
> mutator.execute();
>
> My read counter code is:
> CounterQuery<Composite,String> query =
> createCounterColumnQuery(keyspace,
> CompositeSerializer.get(), StringSerializer.get());
> query.setColumnFamily("tk_counters");
> query.setKey(key);
> query.setName(columnName);
> QueryResult<HCounterColumn<String>> r = query.execute();
> return r.get().getValue();
>
> Thanks,
> *Tamar Fraenkel *
> Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media
>
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>
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