Thanks a ton Anuja for the help !!! On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, anuja jain <anujaja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ajay, > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > In this case, it will be the responsibility of APP1 to start connection to > CAS12. On the other hand if your APP1 is connecting to cassandra using Java > driver, you can add multiple contact points(CAS11 and CAS12 here) so that if > CAS11 is down it will directly connect to CAS12.
Great .. Java-driver it will be :) >> > In such a case, CAS12 will store hints for the data to be stored on CAS11 > (the tokens of which lies within the range of tokens CAS11 holds) and > whenever CAS11 is up again, the hints will be transferred to it and the data > will be distributed evenly. > Evenly? Should not the data be """EXACTLY""" equal after CAS11 comes back up and the sync/transfer/whatever happens? After all, before CAS11 went down, CAS11 and CAS12 were replicating all data. Once again, thanks for your help. I will be even more grateful if you would help me clear the lingering doubt to second point. Thanks and Regards, Ajay