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)
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 (
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