Uniqueness is determined by the partition key PLUS the clustering columns. Hard to tell from your data below, but is it possible that one of the clustering columns (perhaps g) has different values? That would easily explain the 2 rows returned – because they ARE different rows in the same partition. In your data model, make sure you need all the clustering columns to determine uniqueness or you will indeed have more rows than you might expect.
Sean Durity From: Ahmed Eljami <ahmed.elj...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:56 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Two separate rows for the same partition !! Hi guys, We have a strange problem with the data in cassandra, after inserting twice the same partition with differents columns, we see that cassandra returns 2 rows on cqlsh rather than one...: a| b| c| d| f| g| h| i| j| k| l ----------------------------------+----------------+-----------+----------------------+---------------+-----------------------------+--------+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------+-------- dddd| bbb| rrr| tttt| Token | abcd| | False | {'expiration': '1557943260838', 'fname': 'WS', 'freshness': '1556299239910'} | null | null dddd| bbb| rrr| tttt| Token | abcd| | null | null | | null With the primary key = PRIMARY KEY ((a, b, c), d, e, f, g) On the sstable we have the following data: [ { "partition" : { "key" : [ "dddd", "bbb", "rrr" ], "position" : 3760 }, "rows" : [ { "type" : "range_tombstone_bound", "start" : { "type" : "inclusive", "clustering" : [ "tttt", "Token", "abcd", "*" ], "deletion_info" : { "marked_deleted" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.909Z", "local_delete_time" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39Z" } } }, { "type" : "range_tombstone_bound", "end" : { "type" : "exclusive", "clustering" : [ "tttt", "Token", "abcd", "" ], "deletion_info" : { "marked_deleted" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.909Z", "local_delete_time" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39Z" } } }, { "type" : "row", "position" : 3974, "clustering" : [ "tttt", "Token", "abcd", "" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.910Z", "ttl" : 31708792, "expires_at" : "2020-04-27T17:20:31Z", "expired" : false }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "connected", "value" : false }, { "name" : "dattrib", "deletion_info" : { "marked_deleted" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.909999Z", "local_delete_time" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39Z" } }, { "name" : "dattrib", "path" : [ "expiration" ], "value" : "1557943260838" }, { "name" : "dattrib", "path" : [ "fname" ], "value" : "WS" }, { "name" : "dattrib", "path" : [ "freshness" ], "value" : "1556299239910" } ] }, { "type" : "row", "position" : 4123, "clustering" : [ "tttt", "Token", "abcd", "" ], "cells" : [ { "name" : "dvalue", "value" : "", "tstamp" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.910Z", "ttl" : 31708792, "expires_at" : "2020-04-27T17:20:31Z", "expired" : false } ] }, { "type" : "range_tombstone_bound", "start" : { "type" : "exclusive", "clustering" : [ "tttt", "Token", "abcd", "" ], "deletion_info" : { "marked_deleted" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.909Z", "local_delete_time" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39Z" } } }, { "type" : "range_tombstone_bound", "end" : { "type" : "inclusive", "clustering" : [ "tttt", "Token", "abcd", "*" ], "deletion_info" : { "marked_deleted" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39.909Z", "local_delete_time" : "2019-04-26T17:20:39Z" } } } ] } what's weired that the two rows with "position" : 3974, and "position" : 4123 should be on the same row...!! Since, we can't reproduce the issue ... Any idea please ? Thanks. -- Cordialement; Ahmed ELJAMI ________________________________ The information in this Internet Email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this Email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this Email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in any applicable governing The Home Depot terms of business or client engagement letter. The Home Depot disclaims all responsibility and liability for the accuracy and content of this attachment and for any damages or losses arising from any inaccuracies, errors, viruses, e.g., worms, trojan horses, etc., or other items of a destructive nature, which may be contained in this attachment and shall not be liable for direct, indirect, consequential or special damages in connection with this e-mail message or its attachment.