So, currently, is Cassandra using the client provided timestamps for conflict resolution? (Or something else?) Do clients have insight to conflicts Cassandra cannot resolve (assuming it tries to resolve them)? What's the semantic of "eventual consistency" in Cassandra's case then?
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Kelvin Kakugawa <[email protected]> wrote: > Cassandra, right now, doesn't use vector clocks internally. However, > an implementation is being worked on, here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-580 > > -Kelvin > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ran Tavory <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a Cassandra newbe, after having read the Dynamo paper, I was wondering > - > > how does Cassandra use timestamps? > > - Does it use them internally to resolve conflicts? > > - Does it expose vector clocks to clients when internal conflict > resolution > > fails? > > Thanks > > >
