To extend Paul's point, datacenters in cassandra are logical concepts which
may be useful for your use case and do not necessarily need to be
represented by physical data centers.
The presentation mentioned by Andrew, while helpful, covers some concepts
which are specific to Hadoop and may be outd
Github user pauloricardomg commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/61#issuecomment-173235917
Cassandra project does not take pull requests via github, you must create
an issue and submit a patch via
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