How to use the ByteOrderedPartitioner (BOP) to force specific key values to be partitioned according to a custom requirement. I want to force Cassandra to partition and replicate data according to custom requirements, without introducing a custom partitioner how far I can control this behavior and how ?
Overall: I want my data starting with particular ID to be at a predefined node because I know data will be accessed from that node heavily. Also like the data to be replicated to nearby nodes.
Found the answer here... http://www.mail-archive.com/user%40cassandra.apache.org/msg14997.html
Changing the setting "initial_token" in cassandra.yaml file we can let the nodes to be divided into key ranges and partitioning will choose the node which is going to save the first replication of the data and strategy class SimpleStrategy will add the replica to proceeding nodes so by arranging the nodes the way you want you can exploit the replication strategy.