Hi Klaus, N is the number of replicas of each document, not the number of nodes in the cluster. You could have a 30 node cluster with N=1 and spread a database across all those nodes (Q >= 30). With N=1 you'll still have the consistency properties that you desire. Regards,
Adam On Apr 30, 2014, at 3:46 AM, Schroiff, Klaus <kla...@fast.au.fujitsu.com> wrote: > Hi Joan, > > My thoughts circled more around N=x (-say- 5) ,W=1,R=1. > Or to phrase it differently - we'd like to use horizontal scaling whereas HA > is not achieve in the same cluster but via (external) replication. > > So in this case the behaviour is still the same as with N=W=R=1 ? > > Thanks > > Klaus
