Are you using OrderPreservingPartitioner or RandomPartitioner? Cause if you are using RandomPartitioner, a hash is calculated from "a" and that hash is used to determine where the data for "a" key goes, not "a".
On Jul 9, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Sagar Agrawal wrote: > I have a 2 node cluster > node1 - <InitialToken>5</InitialToken> > node2 - <InitialToken>9</InitialToken> > > If I insert a row with key="a", which node should it go and why? > > It is going to node1, but I think it should go to node2, since token value of > node is closer to "a" (using java string compareTo method) > > someone please clarify > > Thanks Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Per Olesen, Developer Trifork A/S Spotorno Alle 4, DK-2630 Taastrup Mobile: +45 23389581 - Mail: p...@trifork.com<mailto:p...@trifork.com>
