Yes, this scenario can occur(even with quorum writes/reads as you are dealing with different rows) as one write may be complete and the other not while someone else is reading from the cluster. Generally though, you can do read repair when you read it in ;). Ie. See if things are inconsistent when reading it and either 1. Wait and read again or 2. Figure out a way to display the results correctly based on merging data. In general #1 on a lot of systems is not a bad approach when you can't merge the data yourself because the conflicts are not happening to often(maybe < 1% of the time in a lot of cases)
With playOrm if you have partitions, you can still have that relational model you described if you can figure out a partition strategy AND you can then query on it with joins and such. Later, Dean From: Roshni Rajagopal <roshni_rajago...@hotmail.com<mailto:roshni_rajago...@hotmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:16 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Data Model - Consistency question Hi Folks, In the relational world, if I needed to model students, courses relationship, I may have done a students -master table a course - master table a bridge table students-course which gives me the ids to students and the courses they are taking. This can answer both 'which students take course A', as well as 'which courses are taken by student B' In the cassandra world, I may design it like this a static student column family a static course column family a student-course column family with student id as key and dynamic list of course - ids to answer 'which courses are taken by student B' a course-student column family with course id as key and dynamic list of student ids 'which students take course A' A screen which displays some student entity details as well as all the courses she is taking will need to refer to 2 column families Suppose an application inserts a new row in student column family, and a new row in student-course column family, as transactions or consistency across column families is not guaranteed, there is a chance that the client receives information that a student is attending a course from student-course column family, but does not exist in the student column family. If we use Strong consistency from the reads + writes combination - will this scenario not occur ? And if we dont, can this scenario occur? Regards, Roshni Regards, Roshni
