Interested in knowing more on why read-before-write is an anti-pattern. In the next month or so, I intend to use Cassandra as a doc store. One very common operation will be to read the document, make a change, and write it back. These would be interactive users modifying their own documents, so rapid repeated writing is not an issue. Why would this be bad?
Robert From: Steven A Robenalt <srobe...@stanford.edu> Reply-To: <user@cassandra.apache.org> Date: Friday, January 10, 2014 at 3:41 PM To: <user@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: Re: Read/Write consistency issue My understanding is that it's generally a Cassandra anti-pattern to do read-before-write in any case, not just because of this issue. I'd agree with Robert's suggestion earlier in this thread of writing each update independently and aggregating on read. Steve