Something to keep in mind here -- which I don't think has been mentioned yet -- 
is the interplay with Bitcask. One may want to *actually* delete the key rather 
than store application-defined tombstones to keep from accumulating entries in 
Bitcask's in-memory keydir.

On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On 6/23/2011 11:16 AM, Jeremiah Peschka wrote:
> > 
> > The bigger question, though, is "Why do I want to store a completely
> > empty record?"
> 
> In the context of riak, the answer might be that record changes are 
> handled differently than record deletes. If you want the things that 
> happen to make concurrent changes and revived old versions eventually 
> consistent, you have to store something.
> 
> -- 
>  Les Mikesell
> [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
> 
> _______________________________________________
> riak-users mailing list
> [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com

_______________________________________________
riak-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com

Reply via email to