[jira] [Comment Edited] (CASSANDRA-8119) More Expressive Consistency Levels

["Jeremy Hanna (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jeremy Hanna edited comment on CASSANDRA-8119 at 2/17/15 7:21 PM:
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I think there's a case for LOCAL_QUORUM + ONE in another datacenter or LOCAL_QUORUM + ONE in every other datacenter.  Essentially, it would be nice to guarantee that the data is persisted outside the local datacenter in a couple of forms.


was (Author: jeromatron):
I think there's a case for LOCAL_QUORUM + ONE in another datacenter or LOCAL_QUORUM + ONE in every other datacenter.

> More Expressive Consistency Levels
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-8119
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8119
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: API
>            Reporter: Tyler Hobbs
>
> For some multi-datacenter environments, the current set of consistency levels are too restrictive.  For example, the following consistency requirements cannot be expressed:
> * LOCAL_QUORUM in two specific DCs
> * LOCAL_QUORUM in the local DC plus LOCAL_QUORUM in at least one other DC
> * LOCAL_QUORUM in the local DC plus N remote replicas in any DC
> I propose that we add a new consistency level: CUSTOM.  In the v4 (or v5) protocol, this would be accompanied by an additional map argument.  A map of {DC: CL} or a map of {DC: int} is sufficient to cover the first example.  If we accept a special keys to represent "any datacenter", the second case can be handled.  A similar technique could be used for "any other nodes".
> I'm not in love with the special keys, so if anybody has ideas for something more elegant, feel free to propose them.  The main idea is that we want to be flexible enough to cover any reasonable consistency or durability requirements.



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