Assume NetworkTopologyStrategy. So, I wanted to know whether a data-center will contain all the keys?
This is the case: CREATE KEYSPACE appKS WITH placement_strategy = 'NetworkTopologyStrategy' AND strategy_options={DC1:3, DC2:3}; Does DC1 and DC2 each contain complete database corpus? That is, if DC1 blows, will I get all the data from DC2? Assume RF = 1. Sorry, for the very elementary question. This is the post that made me ask this question: http://www.onsip.com/blog/2011/07/15/intro-to-cassandra-and-networktopologystrategy It says, "NTS creates an iterator for EACH datacenter and places writes discretely for each. The result is that NTS basically breaks each datacenter into it's own logical ring when it places writes." That seems to mean that each data-center behaves as an independent ring with initial_token. So, If I have 2 data centers and NTS, I am basically mirroring the database. Right? Thanks, PP