Thanks for the links. I wanted to avoid a major compaction somehow. I see many JIRA issues on timestamps related to compaction/reads. So many improvements have been proposed.
-- Ravi On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ahh, yes, 'compaction'. I blanked out while mentioning repair and cleanup. > That is in fact what needs to be done first and what I meant. Thanks > Robert. > > Regards, > Shahab > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Ravikumar Govindarajan < >> ravikumar.govindara...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> What is the quick way to delete old-data and at the same time make sure >>> read [doesn't] churn through all deleted columns? >>> >> >> Use a database that isn't log structured? >> >> But seriously, in 2.0 there's this : >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5514 >> >> Which allows for timestamp hints at query time. >> >> And... >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5228 >> >> Which does compaction expiration of entire SSTables based on TTL. >> >> =Rob >> >> >
