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> I can't think of any way in which Cassandra would be better than using {Zookeeper,etcd,consul}

This is the correct answer. Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round.



> Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round.

Cassandra makes it nearly distributed to implement a foolproof lock correctly?


Yes, nearly! But not quite.




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