[CASSANDRA-2495] Add a proper retry mechanism for counters in case of failed request

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sylvain Lebresne
• Created: 18/Apr/11 14:01
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 07/Oct/12 03:09

Description

Contrarily to standard insert, counter increments are not idempotent. As such, replaying a counter mutation when a TimeoutException occurs could lead to an over-count. This alone limits the use cases for which counters are a viable solution, so we should try to come up with a mechanism that allow the replay of a failed counter mutation without the risk of over-count.