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Nate McCall commented on CASSANDRA-13225:
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I'm not sure I quite understand the use case for BEST_QUORUM over QUORUM in
your examples. Are you saying that you want a CL that defines fallback behavior
depending on availability?
If that is the case, this type of logic is best handled at the application
level. For example, the JavaDriver project can be configured to use a
"downgrading consistency" retry policy
(http://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/3.1/manual/retries/).
> Best Consistency Level
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-13225
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13225
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Connor Warrington
> Priority: Minor
>
> When writing data into a cluster there are a few consistency levels to choose
> from. When choosing the consistency level to write with you are making a
> tradeoff between consistency and failover availability. If you choose
> consistency level ALL then all replicas have to be up and when a write
> succeeds all replicas received the write. If you choose consistency level
> QUORUM then a quorum number of replicas have to be up and when a write
> succeeds at quorum number of replicas received the write. The tradeoff comes
> in when there are more then quorum nodes available for the write. We would
> like a write to succeed only when all replicas that are up have received the
> write. Hence the suggestion of best as a consistency level. This would be
> available for the existing consistency levels. The main idea behind this
> feature request is that we are okay with a replica going down (fault
> tolerance) but when the cluster is in a good state we don't mind waiting for
> all nodes to get the write. This would enable the writer to operate at speed
> of the slowest node instead of potentially getting into a state where that
> slow node gets even further behind. This would also enable back pressure to
> be better propagated through the system as the slowest node likely has back
> pressure which is trying to tell the client about but if we don't wait for
> that node the writer loses that information.
> Example scenarios:
> If we have replication factor of 3:
> ALL consistency means 3 replicas have to be up and 3 replicas have to
> successfully get the write.
> QUORUM consistency means 2 replicas have to be up and 2 replicas have to
> successfully get the write.
> BEST_QUORUM consistency means 2 replicas have be up and all up replicas have
> to successfully get the write.
> If 3 replicas are up with replication factor of 3:
> ALL would succeed as all 3 replicas are up and would return success when all
> 3 replicas get the write
> QUORUM would succeed as all 3 replicas are up and would return success when 2
> replicas get the write
> BEST_QUORUM would succeed as all 3 replicas are up and would return success
> when all 3 replicas get the write
> If 2 replicas are up with replication factor of 3:
> ALL would fail as only 2 replicas are up
> QUORUM would succeed as 2 replicas are up and would return success when 2
> replicas get the write
> BEST_QUORUM would succeed as 2 replicas are up and would return success when
> 2 replicas get the write
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