As far as I know they're effectively the same. NetworkTopologyStrategy is useful when you want to set up separate RF per DC, such as if you want to have an analytics DC with lower RF to save money.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:01 AM, SEGALIS Morgan <msega...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I need one more time your precious advice. > > I would like to create a 2 nodes cluster, each node are on a different > DataCenter, but with the same provider, ping between the 2 servers is fast: > ~0,5 ms, and the bandwidth is great: ~ 1GB/s > > is, org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy with replication factor > set to 2 is a good practice ? > > Or should I org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy with > DC1:1 and DC2:1 > (if this is the correct way to use NetworkTopologyStrategy, not sure at > 100%) > > > Thank you for your time. >