Re: Cassandra rack awareness

2015-02-28 Thread Edson Marquezani Filho
As far as I know, the main thing about using NetworkTopologyStrategy and different racks is replica placement throughout your cluster. That strategy favours different racks when it comes to choosing where a row's replica will be placed. So, if you have different numbers of nodes in each rack, you w

Re: Cassandra rack awareness

2015-02-28 Thread Amlan Roy
Hi Rob, Thanks for sharing the link. I have gone through it and few other documents as well. Still I am confused. It seems, if we use vnodes and NetworkTopologyStrategy, we should use a single rack configuration in Cassandra. Or, it can create hotspots in the ring. Not sure if my understanding

Re: Cassandra rack awareness

2015-02-27 Thread Robert Coli
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Amlan Roy wrote: > I am new to Cassandra and trying to setup a Cassandra 2.0 cluster using 4 > nodes, 2 each in 2 different racks. All are in same data centre. This is > what I see in the documentation: > > To use racks correctly: > Use the same number of nodes in

Cassandra rack awareness

2015-02-27 Thread Amlan Roy
Hi, I am new to Cassandra and trying to setup a Cassandra 2.0 cluster using 4 nodes, 2 each in 2 different racks. All are in same data centre. This is what I see in the documentation: To use racks correctly: Use the same number of nodes in each rack. Use one rack and place the nodes in differ