On Jul 19, 2013, at 5:59 AM, Brian Tarbox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you say more about this? We use Zookeeper to manage a large set of > "work units" which are selected, locked, processed by EC2 worker > computers...which then do work on and with Cassandra data. Sure, there's two parts to it. First, holding a lock external to Cassandra itself has its own issue. This is because while you might be able to guarantee that only one person is doing something with Cassandra, short of using CL.ALL, there's no way to fully ensure that two people don't stomp on updates. If you use CL.QUORUM, its still possible that a node could be holding hints, client releases ZK lock, another client gets the lock, does a read and if timed poorly will not see the prior change. Cassandra's CAS operation properly deals with this since its handled inside Cassandra itself. Jonathan Ellis went over why client locks don't work for Cassandra at the Cassandra Summit, slides from his talk here: http://www.slideshare.net/jbellis/cassandra-summit-2013-keynote He goes over CAS on slide 52-60. Cheers, Ben
