I am just curious to understand the mechanism of replication in Cassandra. I read the Datastax link about data distribution:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/cluster_architecture/data_distribution
In the consistent hashing section it tells that Cassandra creates hash value for each primary key and based on that send the data to node that accommodates the generated hash value. After that it shows distribution of data in a cluster. Now my question is how it copies this data to other nodes in a cluster based on hash value.
This may be very basic question. Please explain by example if possible.