Re: Question about consistency levels

2013-11-10 Thread graham sanderson
Thanks Richard, Note the SSTable corruption probably only happens as a result of some testing patterns we’re doing. That said we still want to make sure we can handle if it does happen (since the corrupted nodes will NOT be known to be down and thus still receive traffic). In our particular us

RE: Question about consistency levels

2013-11-10 Thread Richard Lowe
We're using Cassandra 1.1 with Hector 1.1 library. We've found that reducing the CL when an exception occurs is useful as it's usually easier to deal with things not being consistent for a few seconds than the database read/write not succeeding at all. We have multiple DCs and use NetworkTopolo