On 2010-04-05 03:42, Paul Prescod wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Are you suggesting this would give you counter semantics?
> 
> Yes: My understanding of cassandra-580 is that it gives you increment
> and decrement which are the basis of counters.

There is a difference between Cassandra allowing inc/dec on values and
actually *knowing* the resultant value at the time of the write. It's
likely that inc/dec support will still feature blind writes if at all
possible. The memcached protocol returns a resultant value from inc/dec.

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