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		threeseed on May 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add... The default write concern for the last 2 years has been majority. And single node is a perfectly fine default for most use cases. After all Cassandra's default consistency level is 1.

dorlaor on May 16, 2023 [–]

Most users of ScyllaDB/Cassandra use quorum or local_quorum

threeseed on May 16, 2023 | [–]

And most users of MongoDB use majority write concern.

Hence my point there is no difference in defaults between MongoDB and Cassandra.

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