[CASSANDRA-9427] Improve Hinted Handoff

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Created: 19/May/15 17:13
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 12/Feb/16 16:19

Description

There are multiple issues with the way we currently handle hints. Having them saved in a regular Cassandra table, and implementing the queue anti-pattern, is just one of them.

This ticket will aggregate the planned improvements for 3.X.

Sub-Tasks

• Write hints to flat files instead of the system.hints: Resolved
• Dealing with hints after a topology change: Resolved
• CAS writes do not have hint functionality.: Resolved
• Fix hinted_handoff_enabled yaml setting: Resolved
• Implement hints compression: Resolved