Then maybe Cassandra is not the right tool for that, or you need a different data structure. For example you could keep a single table where what used to be your table name is now a part of you partition key. That way any “offline” data will be merged when the nodes join again. If you have conflicts it will be resolved on the basis of the row timestamp.
-- Jacques-Henri Berthemet From: Stephen Baynes [mailto:stephen.bay...@smoothwall.net] Sent: lundi 5 octobre 2015 11:00 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Changing schema on multiple nodes while they are isolated > Why don’t you simply let the node join the cluster? It will pull new tables > and the data automatically. Because there is no guarantee the rest of the cluster is up, or even if there is anything more than a cluster of one at this time. This is a plug in and go environment where the user does not even know or care about the details of Cassandra. It is not a managed datacenter. On 2 October 2015 at 17:16, Jacques-Henri Berthemet <jacques-henri.berthe...@genesys.com<mailto:jacques-henri.berthe...@genesys.com>> wrote: Why don’t you simply let the node join the cluster? It will pull new tables and the data automatically. -- Jacques-Henri Berthemet From: Stephen Baynes [mailto:stephen.bay...@smoothwall.net<mailto:stephen.bay...@smoothwall.net>] Sent: vendredi 2 octobre 2015 18:08 To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: Re: Changing schema on multiple nodes while they are isolated Hi Jacques-Henri You are right - serious trouble. I managed some more testing and it does not repair or share any data. In the logs I see lots of: WARN [MessagingService-Incoming-/10.50.16.214<http://10.50.16.214>] 2015-10-02 16:52:36,810 IncomingTcpConnection.java:100 - UnknownColumnFamilyException reading from socket; closing org.apache.cassandra.db.UnknownColumnFamilyException: Couldn't find cfId=e6828dd0-691a-11e5-8a27-b1780df21c7c at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilySerializer.deserializeCfId(ColumnFamilySerializer.java:163) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.1.jar:2.2.1] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilySerializer.deserialize(ColumnFamilySerializer.java:96) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.1.jar:2.2.1] and some: ERROR [AntiEntropyStage:1] 2015-10-02 16:48:16,546 RepairMessageVerbHandler.java:164 - Got error, removing parent repair session ERROR [AntiEntropyStage:1] 2015-10-02 16:48:16,548 CassandraDaemon.java:183 - Exception in thread Thread[AntiEntropyStage:1,5,main] java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.repair.RepairMessageVerbHandler.doVerb(RepairMessageVerbHandler.java:167) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.1.jar:2.2.1] at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:66) ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.1.jar:2.2.1] Will need to do some thinking about this. I wonder about shiping a backup of a good system keyspace and restore it on each node before it starts for the first time - but will that end up with each node having the same internal id? On 2 October 2015 at 16:27, Jacques-Henri Berthemet <jacques-henri.berthe...@genesys.com<mailto:jacques-henri.berthe...@genesys.com>> wrote: Hi Stephen, If you manage to create tables on each node while node A and B are separated, you’ll get into troubles when they will reconnect again. I had the case previously and Cassandra complained that tables with same names but different ids were present in the keyspace. I don’t know if there is a way to fix that with nodetool but I don’t think that it is a good practice. To solve this, we have a “schema creator” application node that is responsible to change the schema. If this node is down, schema updates are not possible. We can make any node ‘creator’, but only one can be enabled at any given time. -- Jacques-Henri Berthemet From: Stephen Baynes [mailto:stephen.bay...@smoothwall.net<mailto:stephen.bay...@smoothwall.net>] Sent: vendredi 2 octobre 2015 16:46 To: user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org> Subject: Changing schema on multiple nodes while they are isolated Is it safe to make schema changes ( e.g. create keyspace and tables ) on multiple separate nodes of a cluster while they are out of communication with other nodes in the cluster? For example create on node A while node B is down, create on node B while A is down, then bring both up together. We are looking to embed Cassandra invisibly in another product and we have no control in what order users may start/stop the nodes up or add/remove them from clusters. And Cassandra must come up and be working with at least local access regardless. So this means always creating keyspaces and tables so they are always present. But this means nodes joining clusters which already have the same keyspace and table defined. Will it cause any issues? I have done some testing and saw some some issues when I tried to nodetool repair to bring things into sync. However at the time I was fighting with what I later discovered was CASSANDRA-9689 keyspace does not show in describe list, if create query times out.<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9689> and did not know what was what. I will give it another try sometime, but would appreciate knowing if this is going to run into trouble before we find it. We are basically using Cassandra to share fairly transient information We can cope with data loss during environment changes and occasional losses at other times. But if the environment is stable then it should all just work, whatever the environment is. We use a very high replication factor so all nodes have a copy of all the data and will keep working even if they are the only one up. Thanks -- Stephen Baynes Thanks -- Stephen Baynes Thanks -- Stephen Baynes Senior Developer
