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Jeremy Hanna updated CASSANDRA-5062:
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Labels: LWT (was: )
> Support CAS
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> Key: CASSANDRA-5062
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5062
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: CQL
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
> Priority: Major
> Labels: LWT
> Fix For: 2.0 beta 1
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> Attachments: half-baked commit 1.jpg, half-baked commit 2.jpg,
> half-baked commit 3.jpg
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> "Strong" consistency is not enough to prevent race conditions. The classic
> example is user account creation: we want to ensure usernames are unique, so
> we only want to signal account creation success if nobody else has created
> the account yet. But naive read-then-write allows clients to race and both
> think they have a green light to create.
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