Re: Force a node to form part of quorum

2011-06-16 Thread aaron morton
Short answer: No. Medium answer: No all nodes are equal. It could create a single point of failure if a QUOURM could not be formed without a specific node. Writes are sent to every replica. Reads with Read Repair enabled are also sent to every replica. For reads the closest UP node as

Re: Force a node to form part of quorum

2011-06-16 Thread A J
It would be great if Cassandra puts this on their roadmap. There is lot of durability benefits by incorporating dc awareness into the write consistency equation. MongoDB has this feature in their upcoming release:

Re: Force a node to form part of quorum

2011-06-16 Thread Peter Schuller
It would be great if Cassandra puts this on their roadmap. There is lot of durability benefits by incorporating dc awareness into the write consistency equation. You may be interested in the discussion here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2338 -- / Peter Schuller

Force a node to form part of quorum

2011-06-15 Thread A J
Is there a way to favor a node to always participate (or never participate) towards fulfillment of read consistency as well as write consistency ? Thanks AJ