Re: Time series data and deletion

2013-03-11 Thread Tyler Hobbs
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Flavio Baronti wrote: > > > One more question. I read and reread your description of deletes [1], but > I still am confused on tombstones and GCGraceSeconds, specifically when you > say "If the deletion is before gcBefore it is totally ignored". > Suppose I delet

Re: Time series data and deletion

2013-03-11 Thread Flavio Baronti
Il 2013/03/11 14:42 PM, aaron morton ha scritto: I'm trying to understand what will happen when we start deleting the old data. Are you going to delete data or use the TTL? We delete the data explicitly, since we might change idea on the data TTL after it has been written. With size tiered

Re: Time series data and deletion

2013-03-11 Thread aaron morton
> I'm trying to understand what will happen when we start deleting the old data. Are you going to delete data or use the TTL? > With size tiered compaction, suppose we have one 160Gb sstable and some > smaller tables totalling 40Gb. Not sure on that, it depends on the work load. > My understan

Time series data and deletion

2013-03-08 Thread Flavio Baronti
Hello, we are using Cassandra for storing time series data. We never update, only append; we plan to store 1 year worth of data, occupying something around 200Gb. I'm trying to understand what will happen when we start deleting the old data. With size tiered compaction, suppose we have one 160