Grokking the Advanced System Design Interview
Vote

0% completed

​

Replication

Let's explore Cassandra's replication strategy.

Each node in Cassandra serves as a replica for a different range of data. Cassandra stores multiple copies of data and spreads them across various replicas, so that if one node is down, other replicas can respond to queries for that range of data. This process of replicating the data on to different nodes depends upon two factors:

  • Replication factor
  • Replication strategy

Replication factor

The replication factor is the number of nodes that will receive the copy of the same data

.....

.....

.....

Like the course? Get enrolled and start learning!
A

Anonymous

· 5 years ago

"Each keyspace in Cassandra can have a different replication factor."

Show 2 replies
A

Anonymous

· 5 years ago

" The replica sent to Server 4 will have a hint in its metadata that suggests which node was the intended recipient of the replica (in this case, Server 1)"

Show 3 replies

Reading Progress

0%

Vote for new content