I ran the following set of commands via CLI in our servers. There is a data-discrepancy that I encountered as below during gets...
We are running 1.2.4 version with replication-factor=3 (DC1) & 2 (DC2). Reads and writes are at LOCAL_QUORUM create column family TestCF with key_validation_class=AsciiType AND comparator = 'CompositeType(AsciiType,LongType)' AND compression_options={sstable_compression:SnappyCompressor, chunk_length_kb:64}; [default@Sample] consistencylevel AS LOCAL_QUORUM; Consistency level is set to 'LOCAL_QUORUM'. [default@Sample] get TestCF [ascii('1773221000000008001')] [' *1773221000004550009_:1773221000004560008*']; => (column=1773221000004550009_:1773221000004560008, value=31373733323231303030303034353530303039, timestamp=1397743374931) Elapsed time: 8.64 msec(s). //Do a full row dump which shows the above column [default@Sample] get TestCF [ascii('1773221000000008001')]; ........................... => (column=1773221000004547019_:1773221000004560001, value=31373733323231303030303034353437303139, timestamp=1397743139121) => (column=*1773221000004550009_:1773221000004560008*, value=31373733323231303030303034353530303039, timestamp=1397743374931) => (column=1773221000004560003_:1773221000004560005, value=31373733323231303030303034353630303033, timestamp=1397743323261) => (column=1773221000004562001_:1773221000004564003, value=31373733323231303030303034353632303031, timestamp=1397749523707) --------------------------- Returned 4771 results. Elapsed time: 518 msec(s). //Try again [default@Sample] get TestCF[ascii('1773221000000008001')] [' *1773221000004550009_:1773221000004560008*']; => (column=1773221000004550009_:1773221000004560008, value=31373733323231303030303034353530303039, timestamp=1397743374931) Elapsed time: 8.03 msec(s). //Here CLI flipped showing value as not found [default@Sample] get TestCF[ascii('1773221000000008001')] [' *1773221000004550009_:1773221000004550009*']; *Value was not found* Elapsed time: 12 msec(s). //Query again, it shows as value found [default@Sample] get TestCF[ascii('1773221000000008001')] ['1773221000004550009_:1773221000004550009']; => (column=1773221000004550009_:1773221000004550009, value=31373733323231303030303034353530303039, timestamp=1397743374931) Elapsed time: 23 msec(s). Is this just limited to CLI bug or some-thing deeper is brewing? Our app faced a serious issue in code involving this query. Is it a known issue? Any help is much appreciated -- Ravi