Re: Reconciling expiring cells and tombstones

> > Why does Cassandra consistently prefer tombstones to other kinds of cells? > It's primarily to have deterministic conflict resolution. I don't recall any specific conversations about preferring tombstones expiring cells, and the original ticket (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA

Re: Reconciling expiring cells and tombstones

Hello Sam, This is not answering your direct question but if you worry about clock skew take a look at this great two-part blogpost: https://blog.logentries.com/2014/03/synchronizing-clocks-in-a-cassandra-cluster-pt-1-the-problem/