Anti Entropy for replica reconsilation

[ashwanthkumar]

References

• https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/AntiEntropy
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13222713/why-is-the-word-entropy-present-in-anti-entropy-protocols
• http://distributeddatastore.blogspot.in/2013/07/cassandra-using-merkle-trees-to-detect.html
• https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/MerkleTree.java

[ashwanthkumar]

Something interesting that came up today - DottedDB: Anti-Entropy without Merkle Trees,
Deletes without Tombstones