Sorry, I replied to the wrong list with HBase info. Here is Cassandra's link about invoking compaction manually through nodetool http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/tools/toolsNodetool_r.html?pagename=docs&version=1.2&file=references/nodetool
Regards, Shahab On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes you can: > > http://hbase.apache.org/book/regions.arch.html#compaction > http://hbase.apache.org/book/important_configurations.html (Managed > Compaction section) > > Regards, > Shahab > > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Sebastian Schmidt <isib...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Am 06.10.2013 00:00, schrieb Cem Cayiroglu: >> > It will be deleted after a compaction. >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > On 05 Oct 2013, at 07:29, Sebastian Schmidt <isib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> per default, the key of a row is not deleted, if all columns were >> >> deleted. I tried to figure out why, but I didn't find an answer, except >> >> that it is 'intended'. Why is that intended? And is there a possibility >> >> to manually delete the row key? >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Sebastian >> Okay, thanks. >> >> Can I manually start the compaction process? >> > >
