Re: Maintaining counter column consistency

2013-10-02 Thread Haithem Jarraya
Hi Ben, If you make sure R + W N you should be fine. Have a read of this http://www.slideshare.net/benjaminblack/introduction-to-cassandra-replication-and-consistency Thanks, H On 1 Oct 2013, at 18:29, Ben Hood 0x6e6...@gmail.comhttp://gmail.com wrote: Hi, We're maintaining a bunch of

Re: Maintaining counter column consistency

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Hood
Hi Haithem, I might have phrased my question wrongly - I wasn't referring to the considerations of consistency level or replication factors - I was referring to fact that I want to insert a row and increment a counter in the same operation. I was concerned about the inconsistency that could

Maintaining counter column consistency

2013-10-01 Thread Ben Hood
Hi, We're maintaining a bunch of application specific counters that are incremented on a per event basis just after the event has been inserted. Given the fact that they can get of sync, we were wondering if there are any best practices or just plain real world experience for handling the