I have this code:
CREATE KEYSPACE “KeySpace Name”
WITH replication = {'class': ‘Strategy name’, 'replication_factor' : ‘No.Of replicas’}
What is the use of 'replication_factor' in the above Cassandra query?
The replication factor is an integer, it determines how many time your data is replicated across your cluster. You usually want to replicate your data to achieve high availability. Of course, it comes at the cost of extra storage. Replication factor (RF) of 3 is by far the most common value. This works if you have at least 3 nodes in your cluster.
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As i read and understood from official cassandra document and from other posts here when we configure system_auth replication factor is 1.
But i would like to understood, how the system_auth replication works if i configure value as system_auth replication = 2?
which two nodes will maintain replicas?
There will be two copies of the system_auth keyspace spread across ALL of your nodes. That way, if one goes down, the data is still available on another node. Different entries to system_auth may be stored on different nodes, but there will always be two copies.
If your replication factor = the number of nodes, then each node will hold all the system_auth data. If your replication factor > number of nodes, you are gaining nothing, since all nodes already have a full copy of the data, no extra safety here. If your replication factor < number of nodes, no node will hold a complete copy of the data, but it will hold a portion of it.
Here system_auth replication = 2 means data of system_auth will be replicated on 2 nodes(total 2 copy of data) on cluster. if one node goes down then you can also able to login and authenticate the node.
you may increase the replication factor as well.
What is replication factor in cassandra and how does it affect single DC or multiple DC nodes ?
Cassandra stores replicas on multiple nodes to ensure reliability and fault tolerance. The total number of replicas across the cluster is referred to as the replication factor. A replication factor of 1 means that there is only one copy of each row on one node. A replication factor of 2 means two copies of each row, where each copy is on a different node. All replicas are equally important; there is no primary or master replica
When creating keyspace, you need to specify the replication factor on each DC.
Example Single DC with SimpleStrategy:
CREATE KEYSPACE Excelsior WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 3 };
Here we specify replication_factor 3 means, Each row will be placed on three different node.
Example Multi DC :
CREATE KEYSPACE Excalibur WITH REPLICATION = {'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'dc1' : 3, 'dc2' : 2};
This example sets three replicas for a data center named dc1 and two replicas for a data center named dc2
Source : https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/architecture/architectureDataDistributeReplication_c.html
I am newbie to cassandra.
What exactly replication factor in cassandra means?
For example,
I have 3 node cluster(node1,node2,node3) and If I create keyspace with replication factor 1,and insert data through node1,Can I read the data from other 2 nodes?
Or It will store the data in node1. Is data available in other 2 nodes for read/write operations?
The total number of replicas across the cluster is referred to as the replication factor. A replication factor of 1 means that there is only one copy of each row on one node. You should be able to read/write data from the other two nodes, depending on ports and firewalls between nodes.
Does Cassandra support one direction replication? Say I have 2 DCs, DC1 and DC2. Real time data is being written only in DC1 and asynch replication happens in DC2. Is there a way now if I do some write on same data in DC2, it does not get replicated in DC1?
There is no concept of one way replication. If your replication factor is 2 then it will replicate data in any two nodes. You are using DC1 and DC2 then you have to use the "NetworkTopologyStrategy" and define the replication factor for each DC. Your problem will automatically resolve using "Snitch" tool to decided data store in different nodes in both DC's.
This feature is available when you create a keyspace
Let's say you want the keyspace 1 to be replicated on both datacenters and keyspace 2 on one datacenter:
This will replicate your data on one datacenter:
CREATE KEYSPACE keyspace1 WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'datacenter1' : 1 };
And this on both datacenters :
CREATE KEYSPACE keyspace2
WITH REPLICATION = {'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'datacenter1' : 1, 'datacenter2' : 1};
There is no concept of one way replication. You have a few options:
1) use low consistency levels (LOCAL_*) when writing on writes to DC2 so the app doesn't block to replicate to DC1
2) keep the dcs in separate rings, and bulk load a synchronously with stable loader
Is is possible to have different replication settings on different nodes of the same cluster?
(All DCs have same keyspace/tables, but different replication settings)
We would like to have DC1 and DC2 collecting sensor data on different geographical locations, and sending these to a DC3. So DC3 contains all data from DC1 + DC2.
However, DC1 and DC2 should not contain each other's data (only data which was written by local clients).
Can this be achieved in Cassandra by having different keyspace replication settings on the DCs?
On DC1: 'DC1':1, 'DC3':1
On DC2: 'DC2':1, 'DC3':1
On DC3: 'DC3':1
You can't really do this with NetworkTopologyStrategy. Depending on how much effort you want to put into this you could implement your own replication strategy. I don't think this is very common, but Cassandra does allow it and it likely wouldn't be too difficult to implement what you want (take a look at NTS's implementation as an example).
If you don't want to implement your own strategy I would recommend creating 2 keyspaces with the following configuration:
CREATE KEYSPACE keyspace1
WITH replication = {
'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy',
'DC1' : 1,
'DC3' : 1
};
CREATE KEYSPACE keyspace2
WITH replication = {
'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy',
'DC2' : 1,
'DC3' : 1
};
and then depending on the location of your client you would use either keyspace.