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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Use and expectations around application data consistency

Applications will vary in their consistency requirements by use case. The key thing to remember is that Apache Cassandra is (by design) not a consistent database. It is designed around achieving high levels of performance and availability.

There are steps you can take to improve the consistency of your application's data, but you will trade performance to achieve it.

It is important to also understand how many nodes your cluster contains, as well as what replication factor (RF) is used on your keyspace. Too often, these aspects are abstracted from application developers, who in turn end up making ill-informed decisions around their choice of consistency level. In fact, the most common ...

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