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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:47:21 -0600
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Subject: Re: vector clocks?
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Ran Tavory <rantav@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, currently, is Cassandra using the client provided timestamps for
> conflict resolution?

yes

> Do clients have insight to conflicts Cassandra cannot resolve

no, and there's no such thing as "conflicts Cassandra cannot resolve," either

> What's the semantic of "eventual consistency" in Cassandra's case then?

eventually (immediately, if R + W > N), every read will return the
most recent write