Re: Upserting the same values multiple times

2014-01-21 Thread Robert Wille
No tombstones, just many copies of the same data until compaction occurs. From: Sanjeeth Kumar Reply-To: Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 8:37 PM To: Subject: Upserting the same values multiple times Hi, I have a table A, one of the fields of which is a text column called body. This

RE: Upserting the same values multiple times

2014-01-21 Thread Viktor Jevdokimov
It's not about tombstones. Tombstones are virtually markers for deleted columns (using delete or ttl) in new sstables after compaction to keep such columns for gcgrace period. Updates do not create tombstones for previous records, latest version upon timestamp will be saved from memtable or whe