On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:01 AM, David Strauss <da...@fourkitchens.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-05 03:42, Paul Prescod wrote: >... > > There is a difference between Cassandra allowing inc/dec on values and > actually *knowing* the resultant value at the time of the write. It's > likely that inc/dec support will still feature blind writes if at all > possible. The memcached protocol returns a resultant value from inc/dec.
Right. That's why I said that the proxy layer would need to read the result with an appropriate consistency level before returning to the memcached client application. The client application would need to declare its consistency preference using a configuration file. Paul Prescod