Re: HintedHandoff and ReplicationFactor with a downed node

2010-10-22 Thread Dan Washusen
The last time this came up on the list Jonathan Ellis said (something along the lines of) if your application can't tolerate stale data then you should read with a consistency level of QUORUM. It would be nice if there was some sort of middle ground for an application that can tolerate slightly st

Re: HintedHandoff and ReplicationFactor with a downed node

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Coli
On 10/22/10 2:55 PM, Craig Ching wrote: Even better, I'd love a way to not allow B to be available until replication is complete, can I detect that somehow? Proposed and rejected a while back : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-768 =Rob

HintedHandoff and ReplicationFactor with a downed node

2010-10-22 Thread Craig Ching
Hi, I'm testing Cassandra to ensure it fits my needs.  One of the tests I want to perform is writing while a node is down.  Here's the scenario: Cassandra 0.6.6 2 nodes replication factor of 2 hinted handoff on I load node A with 50,000 rows while B is shutdown (BTW, I'm using CL.ONE during the