Re: Atomic or Non-Atomic Counters

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ellis
They are atomic in the sense that if you increment from N to M, readers will never see any intermediate values, just N or M itself. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Sal Fuentes wrote: > The design document that isĀ referencedĀ on the Cassandra wiki page > (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Counters)

Atomic or Non-Atomic Counters

2011-08-24 Thread Sal Fuentes
The design document that is referenced on the Cassandra wiki page ( http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Counters) describes the Counters in Cassandra as non-atomic ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12459754/Partitionedcountersdesigndoc.pdf). However, the DataStax post on counters ( ht