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Re:Cassandra is not row level consistent by MrBuddyCasino on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:07AM (#13034841)
> I can't think of any way in which Cassandra would be better than using {Zookeeper,etcd,consul}

This is the correct answer. Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round.

Re:Cassandra is not row level consistent by PDoyle on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:46AM (#13036332)
> Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round.

Cassandra makes it nearly distributed to implement a foolproof lock correctly?

Re:Cassandra is not row level consistent by MrBuddyCasino on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:49AM (#13036702)
Yes, nearly! But not quite.