Hi David Thanks for your reply. But what happens if I read and get 2 nodes has value 10 with older time stamp and the third node has 20 with more recent time stamp? Will cassandra return 10(majority) or 20(more recent)?
thanks Maifi On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM, David Timothy Strauss <da...@fourkitchens.com> wrote: > The quorum write would fail, but the data would not be rolled back. Assuming > the offline nodes recover, the data would eventually replicate. > > This question belongs on the user list, though. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maifi Khan <maifi.k...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:00:47 > To: <dev@cassandra.apache.org> > Reply-To: dev@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: questions regarding read and write in cassandra > > Hi > I have a question in the following scenario. > Say we have 10 nodes, Replication factor is 5. > Now, say, for Row X, Column Y, data is replicated to node 1,2,3,4,5 > and current value is 10 > Say, I issue a write command with value “20” to Row X, column Y with > quorum(n/2+1=3 nodes). Say it updated 1 and 2 and failed to update > any other node. So it failed to write to 3 nodes. What happens in such > scenario? > > Q: Will the user returned failed? > > Now, assuming that the write failed. > What value will I see if I want to read the same cell with Quorum? > Now, say I read the data with quorum. It read from 1, 4, 5 and see > that node 1 has the most recent data (“20” which is still there as > cassandra does not roll back). > Will it will return the data “20” to the user or will it return the > earlier value 10 as it is returned by the node 4 and 5? > > Also, does read repair tries to propagate 20 to all the replicas > although cassandra returned failed to the user? > > > thanks >
