Hi Ivan, Cassandra supports 'tunable consistency' . If you always read and write at a quorum (or local quorum for multi data center) from one , you can guarantee that the results will be consistent as in all the data will be compared and the latest will be returned, and no data will be out of date. This is at a loss of performance- it will be fastest to just read and write once rather than check a quorum of nodes.
What you chose depends on what your application needs are. Is it ok if some users receive out of date data (it isn't earth shattering if someone doesn't know what you're eating right now), or is it a banking transaction system where all entities must be consistently updated. So designing in cassandra priortizes de-normalization. You cannot have referential integrity that 2 tables (col families in cassandra) are in sync because the database has designed it to be so using foreign keys. The application needs to ensure that all data in column families are accurate and not out of sync, because data elements may be duplicated in different col families. You cannot have 2 different entities and ensure that changes to both will be done and then only be visible to others. Regards, From: Jeffrey Kesselman <jef...@gmail.com<mailto:jef...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Does Cassandra support operations in a transaction? Short story is that few if any of the NoSql systems supprot transactions natively. Thats oen of the big compromises they make. What they call "eventual consistancy" is actually eventual Durabiltiy in ACID terms. Consistancy, as meant by the C in ACID, is not gauranteed at all. On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Ivan Jiang <wiwi1...@gmail.com<mailto:wiwi1...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I am a new guy to Cassandra, I wonder if available to call Cassandra in one Transaction such as in Relation-DB. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Ivan Jiang -- It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. *** Walmart Confidential ***
