On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Brian Burruss <[email protected]> wrote:
> can the cassandra client (java specifically) specify that a particular > "put" should be "create only, do not update"? If the value already exists > in the database, i want the put to fail. for instance, two users want the > exact same username, so they both do a "get" to determine if the username > already exists, it doesn't, so they create. the last one to create wins, > correct? > Correct. You would need to implement a locking mechanism such as Zookeeper in your application to get around this. -Brandon
