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The "Operations" page has been changed by ArtieCopeland. The comment on this change is: updated the algorithm to calculate tokens to use the range of 0..N-1 since they can start with 0. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations?action=diff&rev1=60&rev2=61 -------------------------------------------------- When the !RandomPartitioner is used, Tokens are integers from 0 to 2**127. Keys are converted to this range by MD5 hashing for comparison with Tokens. (Thus, keys are always convertible to Tokens, but the reverse is not always true.) === Token selection === - Using a strong hash function means !RandomPartitioner keys will, on average, be evenly spread across the Token space, but you can still have imbalances if your Tokens do not divide up the range evenly, so you should specify !InitialToken to your first nodes as `i * (2**127 / N)` for i = 1 .. N. + Using a strong hash function means !RandomPartitioner keys will, on average, be evenly spread across the Token space, but you can still have imbalances if your Tokens do not divide up the range evenly, so you should specify !InitialToken to your first nodes as `i * (2**127 / N)` for i = 0 .. N-1. With order preserving partitioners, your key distribution will be application-dependent. You should still take your best guess at specifying initial tokens (guided by sampling actual data, if possible), but you will be more dependent on active load balancing (see below) and/or adding new nodes to hot spots.
