On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote:
> > Correct, if you get a WriteTimeout error, you don't know if any replicas > have written the data or not. It's even possible that all replicas wrote > the data but didn't respond to the coordinator in time. I suspect most > users handle this situation by retrying the write with the same timestamp > (which makes the operation idempotent*). > *Unless the operation is a counter increment/decrement, in which case it cannot be idempotent. This is why people who need very-accurate counters should probably not use Cassandra for them. :) =Rob
