Re: Why simple replication strategy for system_auth ?

2016-05-17 Thread Jérôme Mainaud
Thank you for your answer. What I still don't understand is why auth data is not managed in the same way as schema metadata. Both must be accessible to the node to do the job. Both are changed very rarely. In a way users are some kind of database objects. I understand the choice for trace and

Re: Why simple replication strategy for system_auth ?

2016-05-13 Thread Sam Tunnicliffe
LocalStrategy means that data is not replicated in the usual way and remains local to each node. Where it is used, replication is either not required (for example in the case of secondary indexes and system.local) or happens out of band via some other method (as in the case of schema, or

Why simple replication strategy for system_auth ?

2016-05-13 Thread Jérôme Mainaud
Hello, Is there any good reason why system_auth strategy is SimpleStrategy by default instead of LocalStrategy like system and system_schema ? Especially when documentation advice to set the replication factor to the number of nodes in the cluster, which is both weird and inconvenient to follow.