Are you SURE there are no writes to that table coming from another DC?
-- Jeff Jirsa > On Oct 15, 2018, at 5:34 PM, Naik, Ninad <ninad.n...@epsilon.com> wrote: > > Thanks Jeff. We're not doing deletes, but I will take a look at this jira. > From: Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 12:55:17 PM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: Re: Cassandra: Inconsistent data on reads (LOCAL_QUORUM) > > [ This email has been sent from a source external to Epsilon. Please use > caution when clicking links or opening attachments. ] > > If this is 2.1 AND you do deletes AND you have a non-zero number of failed > writes (timeouts), it’s possibly short reads > > 3.0 fixes this ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12872 ), it > won’t be backported to 2.1 because it’s a significant change to how reads are > executed > > > -- > Jeff Jirsa > > > On Oct 13, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Naik, Ninad <ninad.n...@epsilon.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Maitrayee. I should have mentioned this as one of the things we >> verified. The clocks on cassandra nodes are in sync. >> From: maitrayee shah <koolja...@yahoo.com.INVALID> >> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 6:40:25 PM >> To: user@cassandra.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Cassandra: Inconsistent data on reads (LOCAL_QUORUM) >> >> [ This email has been sent from a source external to Epsilon. Please use >> caution when clicking links or opening attachments. ] >> >> We have seen inconsistent read if the clock on the nodes are not in sync. >> >> >> Thank you >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 12, 2018, at 1:50 PM, Naik, Ninad <ninad.n...@epsilon.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> We're seeing inconsistent data while doing reads on cassandra. Here are the >>> details: >>> >>> It's is a wide column table. The columns can be added my multiple machines, >>> and read by multiple machines. The time between writes and reads are in >>> minutes, but sometimes can be in seconds. Writes happen every 2 minutes. >>> >>> Now, while reading we're seeing the following cases of inconsistent reads: >>> >>> One column was added. If a read was done after the column was added (20 >>> secs to 2 minutes after the write), Cassandra returns no data. As if the >>> key doesn't exist. If the application retries, it gets the data. >>> A few columns exist for a row key. And a new column 'n' was added. Again, a >>> read happens a few minutes after the write. This time, only the latest >>> column 'n' is returned. In this case the app doesn't know that the data is >>> incomplete so it doesn't retry. If we manually retry, we see all the >>> columns. >>> A few columns exist for a row key. And a new column 'n' is added. When a >>> read happens after the write, all columns but 'n' are returned. >>> Here's what we've verified: >>> >>> Both writes and reads are using 'LOCAL_QUORUM' consistency level. >>> The replication is within local data center. No remote data center is >>> involved in the read or write. >>> During the inconsistent reads, none of the nodes are undergoing GC pauses >>> There are no errors in cassandra logs >>> Reads always happen after the writes. >>> A few other details: Cassandra version: 2.1.9 DataStax java driver version: >>> 2.1.10.2 Replication Factor: 3 >>> >>> We don't see this problem in lower environments. We have seen this happen >>> once or twice last year, but since last few days it's happening quite >>> frequently. On an average 2 inconsistent reads every minute. >>> >>> Here's how the table definition looks like: >>> >>> CREATE TABLE "MY_TABLE" ( >>> key text, >>> sub_key text, >>> value text, >>> PRIMARY KEY ((key), sub_key) >>> ) WITH >>> bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND >>> caching='{"keys":"ALL", "rows_per_partition":"NONE"}' AND >>> comment='' AND >>> dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND >>> gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND >>> read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND >>> default_time_to_live=0 AND >>> speculative_retry='ALWAYS' AND >>> memtable_flush_period_in_ms=0 AND >>> compaction={'class': 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND >>> compression={'sstable_compression': 'LZ4Compressor'}; >>> Please point us in the right direction. Thanks ! >>> >>> >>> >>> The information contained in this e-mail message and any attachments may be >>> privileged and confidential. 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