I am using the Datastax Cassandra driver and have a RetryPolicy setup to retry when a host is unavailable. However, I have noticed that it retries as fast as it can. I wou
You can implement your own retry policy by adding a delay. The simplest way is to pick the source code of the default retry and modify it yourself to implement an exponential delay for retry or something similar.
For exponential delay, just look at the source code of http://docs.datastax.com/en/drivers/java/3.0/com/datastax/driver/core/policies/ExponentialReconnectionPolicy.html to see how it works