Note that this is an implementation detail, not something that inherently can't work with other strategies. LOCAL_QUORUM and EACH_QUORUM are logically equivalent to QUORUM when there is a single datacenter.
We tried briefly to add support for non-NTS strategies in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2516, but reverted it in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2627. On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Anthony Ikeda <anthony.ikeda....@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, great I just wanted to confirm that LOCAL_QUORUM will not work with > SimpleStrategy. There was somewhat of a debate amongst my devs that said it > should work. > Anthon > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Evgeniy Ryabitskiy > <evgeniy.ryabits...@wikimart.ru> wrote: >> >> So. >> You have created keyspace with SimpleStrategy. >> If you want to use LOCAL_QUORUM, you should create keyspace (or change >> existing) with NetworkTopologyStrategy. >> >> I have provided CLI examples on how to do it. If you are creating keyspace >> from Hector, you have to do same via Java API. >> >> Evgeny. >> >> > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com