On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Prabath Abeysekara < prabathabeysek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, apologies if the $subject was discussed previously in this > list before. I've already gone through quite a few email trails on this but > still couldn't find a convincing answer which really made me raise this > question again here in this list. > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201403.mbox/%3CCAEDUwd1Qt=laph87q-uttatcstsojja7-g6cv76aqnjczp6...@mail.gmail.com%3E and http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201404.mbox/%3CCAEDUwd2rhFwVXiByccJ1-VrPOYbDtd0LWGnzpU4CxA2u=mi...@mail.gmail.com%3E tl;dr : It depends on what you mean by "minimum" and "survive". Most people consider the "minimum" to use QUORUM to "survive" a single node "failure" to be RF=N=3. The links elaborate on why that is not exactly correct, but in many cases, it is correct enough. =Rob
