You can not defeat the speed of light. You can read up on LOCAL_QUORUM and EACH_QUORUM consistency levels here: http://www.packtpub.com/article/apache-cassandra-working-multiple-datacenter-environments
Look for the recipe: Quorum operations in multi-datacenter environments On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Baskar Duraikannu <baskar.duraikannu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good morning. We are thinking of setting up 3 data centers with > "NetworkTopologyStrategy" with each DC having 1 copy. All three data > centers are going to be connected by dark fiber with < 10 ms latency. > > Due to network latency, all QUORUM reads and writes will be slower. > > Has anyone used this kind of setup before? Have you seen any issues other > than network latency? > > Thanks > Baskar > >