Hi all, newbie here. Be gentle.
From http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/cluster_architecture/about_client_reque sts: "Thus, the coordinator first contacts the replicas specified by the consistency level. The coordinator will send these requests to the replicas that are currently responding most promptly. The nodes contacted will respond with the requested data; if multiple nodes are contacted, the rows from each replica are compared in memory to see if they are consistent. If they are not, then the replica that has the most recent data (based on the timestamp) is used by the coordinator to forward the result back to the client. To ensure that all replicas have the most recent version of frequently-read data, the coordinator also contacts and compares the data from all the remaining replicas that own the row in the background, and if they are inconsistent, issues writes to the out-of-date replicas to update the row to reflect the most recently written values. This process is known as read repair. Read repair can be configured per column family (usingread_repair_chance <http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/configuration/storage_configuration#re ad-repair-chance> ), and is enabled by default. For example, in a cluster with a replication factor of 3, and a read consistency level of QUORUM, 2 of the 3 replicas for the given row are contacted to fulfill the read request. Supposing the contacted replicas had different versions of the row, the replica with the most recent version would return the requested data. In the background, the third replica is checked for consistency with the first two, and if needed, the most recent replica issues a write to the out-of-date replicas." Always returns the most recent? What if the most recent write is corrupt? I thought the whole point of a quorum was that consistency is verified before the data is returned to the client. No? Thanks, Curt
