Yes, as doc says "Expired data is marked with a tombstone" but you save communication with host and processing of DELETE operator.
Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin, Winguzone - Hosted Cloud Cassandra Launch your cluster in minutes. ---- On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 09:32:16 -0500Ali Akhtar <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote ---- Does TTL also cause tombstones? On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Vladimir Yudovin <vla...@winguzone.com> wrote: >The deletes will be done at a scheduled time, probably at the end of the day, each day. Probably you can use TTL? http://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.1/cql/cql_using/use_expire_c.html Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin, Winguzone - Hosted Cloud Cassandra Launch your cluster in minutes. ---- On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 05:04:12 -0500Ali Akhtar <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote ---- I have a use case where a lot of updates and deletes to a table will be necessary. The deletes will be done at a scheduled time, probably at the end of the day, each day. Updates will be done throughout the day, as new data comes in. Are there any guidelines on improving cassandra's performance for this use case? Any caveats to be aware of? Any tips, like running nodetool repair every X days? Thanks.
