how to set cassandra read and write consistency - cassandra

Question

I can not find the documentation for this. I know there is a consistency command in cqlsh, but there is no distinction between read and write consistency. How would I set different consistency levels for read and write?
Furthermore, there is a mention of a "default" consistency level. Where is that default set? and is it for read or write?

Answer 1

How would I set different consistency levels for read and write?
If you just want to change consistency level for your current session, use CONSISTENCY.
If you want to change the consistency level programamtically, use the cassandra driver for your client language.
Since the Consistency Level can be set per-statement, you can either set it on every statement, or use PreparedStatements. If you're using the Java driver, you can configure a global Consistency level for BOTH reads and writes (but not only reads and only writes).
Where is that default [consistency level] set? and is it for read or write?
If you want to set up a different consistency level for reads than writes, you'll have to do it on a per-statement basis. Use QueryOptions().setConsistencyLevel to set a global consistency level (for the Java driver). It is for BOTH reads and writes.
To set the consistency level for your current session, use the CONSISTENCY command
from the cassandra shell (CQLSH).
For example:
Set CONSISTENCY to force the majority of the nodes to respond:
CONSISTENCY QUORUM
To see your current consistency level, just run CONSISTENCY; from the shell:
ty#cqlsh> consistency;
Current consistency level is ONE.
For programming client applications, set the consistency level using an appropriate driver.
To set a per-insert consistency level using the Java driver, for example, call QueryBuilder.insertInto with setConsistencyLevel.
For example:
PreparedStatement pstmt = session.prepare(
"INSERT INTO product (sku, description) VALUES (?, ?)");
pstmt.setConsistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel.QUORUM);
To set a global consistency level for reads AND writes using the Java driver, do something like:
QueryOptions qo = new QueryOptions().setConsistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel.ALL);
Since the Java driver only executes CQL statements, which can be either reads or writes to Cassandra, it is not possible to globally configure the Consistency Level for only reads or only writes. To do so, since the Consistency Level can be set per-statement, you can either set it on every statement, or use PreparedStatements. More info in the Queries and Results document.
More resources on read/write consistency levels
How consistency level is configured
The different consistency levels are also explained here ^
Cassandra's Java Driver documentation
See the "Consistency levels" section in configuring consistency with the Java Driver
Other resources on consistency:
You may also want to look into your replica placement strategy and replication factor (which are other forms of consistency).
I included links below for good measure:
Background on data replication in Cassandra
How to update replica strategy and replication factor using CREATE KEYSPACE
How consistency affects performance

Answer 2

By default, the Consistency Level is ONE for all R/W Operations.
Setting CL is done on a per query (read or upsert) basis by adding the CONSISTENCY XXXX syntax on the query as seen here:
https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cql/dml.html#insert
and
https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/4.0/tools/cqlsh.html

Answer 3

The consistency level is not set anymore with a CQL USING clause. See CASSANDRA-4734 for an explanation.
Instead, with CQLSH, you should use the CONSISTENCY command: see here for details.
Note that the default consistency level changed in all DataStax drivers from ONE to LOCAL_ONE: see the python driver documentation for details - however, in spite of using the python driver behind the scenes, CQLSH still has a default consistency of ONE).

Answer 4

The consisenty level is no longer set using PreparedStatement. That API was changed. Now you have to use BatchStatementBuilder.
Here is sample code that works.
BatchStatementBuilder builder = BatchStatement.builder(DefaultBatchType.UNLOGGED);
builder.setConsistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel.LOCAL_QUORUM);
PreparedStatement preparedStatement = session.prepare("INSERT INTO \"ScottKeySpace16\".\"Movie\" (title, year, plot) values (:k0, :k1, :k2)");
builder.addStatement(preparedStatement.boundStatementBuilder()
.setString("k0", "Movie44")
.setInt("k1", 2022)
.setString("k2", "This is a very funny movie")
.build());
BatchStatement batchStatement = builder.build();
session.execute(batchStatement);

Answer 5

Default consistency is set in cassandra.conf file . It is for read and write .
You can set consistency per query basis adding USING option in query .