I am quite new to Blur and need some help with the following questions 1. Lets say I have a replication_factor=3 for all HDFS indexes. In case one of the server hosting HDFS indexes goes down [temporary or take-down], what will happen to writes? Some kind-of HintedHandoff [as in Cassandra] is supported?
To re-phrase, what is the Consistency Vs Availability trade-off in Blur, with replication_factor>1 for HDFS indexes? 2. Since HDFSInputStream is used underneath, will this result in too much of data-transfer back-and-forth? A case of multi-segment-merge or even wild-card search could trigger it. 3. Does Blur also support foreign-key like semantics to search across column-families as well as delete using row_id? -- Ravi
