Atomicity and isolation are only guaranteed within a replica. If you have multiple concurrent requests across replicas last timestamp will win. You can get better isolation using LWT which uses paxos under the hood.
On 16 May 2018 at 08:55, Rajesh Kishore <rajesh10si...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am just curious to know when Cassandra doc says the atomicity and > isolation is guaranteed for a row. > Does it mean, two requests updating a row- "R1" at different replica will > be candidate for atomicity and isolation? > > For instance , I have a setup where RF is 2 > I have a client application where two requests of updating a particular > row #R1 goes to two coordinator nodes at same time. > Row "R1" has presence in nodes - N1, N2 (since RF is 2) > Does Cassandra ensure atomicity & isolation across replicas/partition for > a particular row? If so , then how does it get handled does Cassandra > follows 2 Phase commit txn for a row or Cassandra uses distributed lock for > a row? > > Thanks, > Rajesh > > >
