Hi! Thank you for your last reply. I'm still wondering if I got you right...
> ... > A partitioner decides into which partition a piece of data belongs Does your statement imply that the partitioner does not take any decisions at all on the (physical) storage location? Or put another way: What do you mean with "partition"? To quote http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureInternals: "... AbstractReplicationStrategy controls what nodes get secondary, tertiary, etc. replicas of each key range. Primary replica is always determined by the token ring (...)" > ... > You can select different placement strategies and partitioners for different > keyspaces, thereby choosing known data to be stored on known hosts. > This is however discouraged for various reasons – i.e. you need a lot of > knowledge about your data to keep the cluster balanced. What is your usecase > for this requirement? there is probably a more suitable solution. > What we want is to partition the cluster with respect to key spaces. That is we want to establish an association between nodes and key spaces so that a node of the cluster holds data from a key space if and only if that node is a *member* of that key space. To our knowledge Cassandra has no built-in way to specify such a membership-relation. Therefore we thought of implementing our own replica placement strategy until we started to assume that the partitioner had to be replaced, too, to accomplish the task. Do you have any ideas? > Von: Andreas Rudolph [mailto:andreas.rudo...@spontech-spine.com] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012 09:53 > An: user@cassandra.apache.org > Betreff: How to control location of data? > > Hi! > > We're evaluating Cassandra for our storage needs. One of the key benefits we > see is the online replication of the data, that is an easy way to share data > across nodes. But we have the need to precisely control on what node group > specific parts of a key space (columns/column families) are stored on. Now > we're having trouble understanding the documentation. Could anyone help us > with to find some answers to our questions? > > · What does the term "replica" mean: If a key is stored on exactly three > nodes in a cluster, is it correct then to say that there are three replicas > of that key or are there just two replicas (copies) and one original? > · What is the relation between the Cassandra concepts "Partitioner" and > "Replica Placement Strategy"? According to documentation found on DataStax > web site and architecture internals from the Cassandra Wiki the first storage > location of a key (and its associated data) is determined by the > "Partitioner" whereas additional storage locations are defined by "Replica > Placement Strategy". I'm wondering if I could completely redefine the way how > nodes are selected to store a key by just implementing my own subclass of > AbstractReplicationStrategy and configuring that subclass into the key space. > · How can I suppress that the "Partitioner" is consulted at all to determine > what node stores a key first? > · Is a key space always distributed across the whole cluster? Is it possible > to configure Cassandra in such a way that more or less freely chosen parts of > a key space (columns) are stored on arbitrarily chosen nodes? > > Any tips would be very appreciated :-)
