You will most likely get better answers to your if you try the Cassandra users group instead for your question.
Best, Michael On 5/22/13 5:52 PM, "Emalayan Vairavanathan" <svemala...@yahoo.com> wrote: >Hi all, > > > >I am implementing a distributed application which runs on 100s of >machines concurrently. This application is going to use Cassandra as >underlaying storage. > >The application creates the schema (name space and column families) >during initialization phase. It seems I have two options to create the >schema. > >Option - 1 : Using a single node for schema creation. > Option - 2: Having all the nodes (> 100) to run the same schema >creation logic (First, nodes will check whether the schema is already >available and then try to create the schema if it is not available >already). > >To keep the initialization phase simple, I prefer to go for Option - 2. >However I am not sure how Cassandra is going to behave if multiple nodes >try to create the same schema (namespace and column families) >concurrently. It would be nice if someone can tell me about the >implications of Option - 2 with Cassandra version 1.2.2. > >Please let me know if you have question. > >Thank you >VE
