Sounds good. Do you want to make the change ? Thanks for taking the time.
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 7/06/2012, at 7:54 AM, Jim Ancona wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Jim Ancona <j...@anconafamily.com> wrote: > It might be a good idea for the documentation to reflect the tradeoffs more > clearly. > > Here's a proposed addition to the Secondary Index FAQ at > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/SecondaryIndexes > > Q: How does choice of Consistency Level affect cluster availability when > using secondary indexes? > A: Because secondary indexes are distributed, you must have CL level nodes > available for all token ranges in the cluster in order to complete a query. > For example, with RF = 3, when two out of three consecutive nodes in the ring > are unavailable, all secondary index queries at CL = QUORUM will fail, > however secondary index queries at CL = ONE will succeed. This is true > regardless of cluster size. > > Comments? > > Jim
