Re: How do you apply (CQL) schema modification patches across a cluster?

2015-01-12 Thread Robert Coli
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Sotirios Delimanolis sotodel...@yahoo.com wrote: So do we have to guarantee that the schema change will be backwards compatible? Which node should send the schema change query? Should we just make all nodes send it and ignore failures? - Yes is the easiest

How do you apply (CQL) schema modification patches across a cluster?

2015-01-12 Thread Sotirios Delimanolis
Hey all, Assuming a cluster with X 1 application nodes backed by Y 1 Cassandra nodes, how do you best apply a schema modification? Typically, such a schema modification is going to be done in parallel with code changes (for querying the table) so all application nodes have to be restarted.

Re: How do you apply (CQL) schema modification patches across a cluster?

2015-01-12 Thread Sotirios Delimanolis
Are you changing schema so frequently that you really need to automate this process? I guess not. Though, if such a (consistent) process existed, I'd love to use it.  The single node solution will have to do. Because of the source code change, it seems I still have to make sure that the patch