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Ariel Weisberg commented on CASSANDRA-13442:
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CASSANDRA-7168 is about adding a consistency level. This ticket is not about
changing consistency levels and doesn't require applications to change their
usage of consistency levels to benefit.
7168 also does not have reducing storage requirements as a goal.
They both share the observation that repair creates opportunities to make
assumptions about the data set and what is necessary to provide strong
consistency.
> Support a means of strongly consistent highly available replication with
> storage requirements approximating RF=2
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> Key: CASSANDRA-13442
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13442
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Compaction, Coordination, Distributed Metadata, Local
> Write-Read Paths
> Reporter: Ariel Weisberg
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> Replication factors like RF=2 can't provide strong consistency and
> availability because if a single node is lost it's impossible to reach a
> quorum of replicas. Stepping up to RF=3 will allow you to lose a node and
> still achieve quorum for reads and writes, but requires committing additional
> storage.
> The requirement of a quorum for writes/reads doesn't seem to be something
> that can be relaxed without additional constraints on queries, but it seems
> like it should be possible to relax the requirement that 3 full copies of the
> entire data set are kept. What is actually required is a covering data set
> for the range and we should be able to achieve a covering data set and high
> availability without having three full copies.
> After a repair we know that some subset of the data set is fully replicated.
> At that point we don't have to read from a quorum of nodes for the repaired
> data. It is sufficient to read from a single node for the repaired data and a
> quorum of nodes for the unrepaired data.
> One way to exploit this would be to have N replicas, say the last N replicas
> (where N varies with RF) in the preference list, delete all repaired data
> after a repair completes. Subsequent quorum reads will be able to retrieve
> the repaired data from any of the two full replicas and the unrepaired data
> from a quorum read of any replica including the "transient" replicas.
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