Re: Update of value for a given name

This may help clear things up for you: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable -- Tyler Hobbs Software Engineer, DataStax Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library

Update of value for a given name

If I update a column (i.e. change the value contents for a given name in a given key), is the physical disk operation equivalent to delete followed by insert. Or is it just insert somehow making the last value marked as stale ? In the definite guide, it says the following about SSTable: *All write