Re: Question regarding consistency and deletion

2010-07-13 Thread Samuru Jackson
Thanks for the links. Actually it is pretty easy to catch those tombstoned keys on the client side. However, in certain applications it can generate some additional overhead on the network. I think it would be nice to have a forced garbage collection in the API. This would IMHO ease to write

Re: Question regarding consistency and deletion

2010-07-13 Thread Benjamin Black
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Samuru Jackson samurujack...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks for the links. Actually it is pretty easy to catch those tombstoned keys on the client side. However, in certain applications it can generate some additional overhead on the network. I think it would

Re: Question regarding consistency and deletion

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Morton
The Tomstones are removed after GCGraceSeconds (in the storage-config.xml), at the next Major Compaction http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable?highlight=%28tombstones%29Take a look at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes and Handling Failure on