@Sylvain and @Rohit: Thanks for your answers.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote: > So general question, should I rely on Counters if I want 100% accuracy? >> > > No. > > Even not considering potential bugs, counters being not idempotent, if > you get a TimeoutException during a write (which can happen even in > relatively normal conditions), you won't know if the increment went in or > not (and you have no way to know unless you have an external way to check > the value). This is probably fine if you use counters for say real-time > analytics, but not if you use 100% accuracy. > > -- > Sylvain >
