alter table add column not always propogating in cassandra -
I am using Apache Cassandra (2.0.0.0) on a 4 node cluster, replication factor = 3 and datastax java . Driver for Cassandra (v. 2.0.2) I am using CQL queries to add columns to the existing tables from inside my Java code. When the selection query in my creation index query and my new column failed, the reason was that the column was not found. There was no error in the Cassandra log. Note that when I ran the cassandra on a single node, this problem did not appear then, but the 4-node is constantly on the cluster. At present, I am working on it again by trying again for 5 times and I feel that the column is added in the third or fourth attempt. Apart from this, I noticed that the number of existing columns in the table is high and there are few such failures. I found a bug already reported: I disabled all firewalls After doing this it worked fine, so it could be due to cassandra using special ports for communication between nodes end; That is being blocked due to the firew...