On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Avi-h <avih...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have encountered the following piece of information regarding the use of > ‘Counter Column’ in Cassandra: “If a write fails unexpectedly (timeout or > loss of connection to the coordinator node) the client will not know if the > operation has been performed. A retry can result in an over count” (- quoted > from http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Counters). > > is it still relevant?
It is (there is an open ticket to fix, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2495, but to be honest we don't really have a good solution to fix it so far). -- Sylvain
