Is there any mechanism that would allow me to write to Cassandra with no blocking at all?
I spent a long time figuring out a problem I encountered with one node in each datacenter: LA, and NY using SS RF=1 and write consistency 1. My row keys are yyyy-mm-dd-h so basically for every hour a row would pin to one datacenter and I would get fast writes from one location. This would change periodically as the hour changed (took forever to figure out what was going on). The whole point of switching to SS from NTS was so I could reduce data redundancy (this is basically throw away data), but the delay in writing cross country is too high with SS since the minimum consistency will cause cassandra blocks to ensure there is ONE write (assuming all nodes are up). NTS does allow me to localize the block on writes by doing strategy options NY=1,LA=1.. but then I am back to storing duplicate data. I'd like to be able to use SS with RF1 and write consistency=0 (or some thing like that). Any thoughts?
