RE: Immutable CFs and read consistency

2011-10-07 Thread Dan Hendry
Dan From: Anthony Wilcox [mailto:peacepatr...@hotmail.com] Sent: October-07-11 9:33 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: Immutable CFs and read consistency The last sentence should have been "In other words, does R apply also to (possibly failed) read attempts or only to successful reads?&q

RE: Immutable CFs and read consistency

2011-10-07 Thread Anthony Wilcox
The last sentence should have been "In other words, does R apply also to (possibly failed) read attempts or only to successful reads?" Anthony From: peacepatr...@hotmail.com To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Immutable CFs and read consistency Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 06:2

Immutable CFs and read consistency

2011-10-07 Thread Anthony Wilcox
We have a Column Family that is immutable (no updates after the first write). Suppose we use RF=2 and W=1. Do we still need R=2, so that R+W>RF? Or is it sufficient to have R=1? My guess is yes, R=1 is sufficient since if it reads a row, the row has to be correct: it can't get stale data.