If you have to pieces of data that are different but have the same timestamp, how can you resolve consistency?
This is a pathological situation to begin with, why should you waste effort to (not) solve it? On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Boris Yen <yulin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess it is because the timestamp does not guarantee data consistency, > but hash does. > > Boris > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:27 PM, David Boxenhorn <da...@citypath.com>wrote: > >> I just saw this >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DigestQueries >> >> and I was wondering why it returns a hash of the data. Wouldn't it be >> better and easier to return the timestamp? You don't really care what the >> data is, you only care whether it is more or less recent than another piece >> of data. >> > >
