How do I set the consistency level for a counter column family in Cassandra

Question

I have a keyspace already defined. Can I set the consistency level for a counter column family (read and write) to ALL without affecting the rest of the keyspace? I cannot figure out how to do it from the help in the cli, but I suppose it should be possible. Something along the lines of:

update column family COUNTERS with ________

I am using the Java Hector API.

Answer 1

Not sure about CQL3 but you can do this while reading/writing. Example thrift client:

client.add('key1', ColumnParent(column_family='Counter1'), CounterColumn('c1', 100), ConsistencyLevel.ONE)
client.add('key1', ColumnParent(column_family='Counter1'), CounterColumn('c1', -50), ConsistencyLevel.ONE)