In some installations, it's used for hashing the partition key to find the host ( RandomPartitioner ) It's used for prepared statement IDs It's used for hashing the data for reads to know if the data matches on all different replicas.
We don't use CRC because conflicts would be really bad. There's probably something in the middle that's slightly faster than md5 without the drawbacks of crc32 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:47 PM Tyagi, Preetika <preetika.ty...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question about MD5 being used in the read path in Cassandra. > I wanted to understand what exactly it is being used for and why not > something like CRC is used which is less complex in comparison to MD5. > > Thanks, > Preetika > >
