Write timeout thrown by cassandra datastax driver

Question

While doing a bulk load of data, incrementing counters based on log data, I am encountering a timeout exception. Im using the Datastax 2.0-rc2 java driver.

Is this a

Answer 1

While I don't understand the root cause of this issue, I was able to solve the problem by increasing the timeout value in the conf/cassandra.yaml file.

write_request_timeout_in_ms: 20000