On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding is using RF 3 and LOCAL_QUORUM for both reads and writes > will provide a strong consistency and a high availability. One node can go > down and also without lowering the consistency. Or RF = 5, Quorum = 3, > allowing 2 nodes node if you need more availability / redundancy (Never saw > that in use so far). > I agree that if one "actually" cared about TOTAL AVAILABILITY one would run RF=5. In that case, one can survive a "permanent" downtime (node hw crashes) and a "temporary" downtime (momentary network partition of node) and still serve at QUORUM. I also agree that I've never seen anyone actually do this, probably because they don't "actually" care... :D =Rob
