Re: one question about cassandra write

2010-08-06 Thread Peter Schuller
> a) It is a major compaction [1] > b) The old version was deleted/overwritten more than GCGraceSeconds ago [2] c) and the memtable containing the delete/overwrite has been flushed. (I suppose that's kinda obvious in retrospect, but it took me a little bit to realize this was why a 'nodetool comp

Re: one question about cassandra write

2010-08-06 Thread Rob Coli
On 8/6/10 2:13 PM, Benjamin Black wrote: Assuming the old version is already on disk in an SSTable, the new version will not overwrite it, and both versions will be in the system. A compaction will remove the old version, however. To be clear, a compaction will only remove the old version if :

RE: one question about cassandra write

2010-08-06 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: one question about cassandra write Hi I have a question about the internal of cassandra write. Say, I already have the following in the database - (row_x,col_y,val1) Now if I try to insert (row_x,col_y,val100), what will happen? Will it overwrite the old

Re: one question about cassandra write

2010-08-06 Thread Benjamin Black
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Maifi Khan wrote: > Hi > I have a question about the internal of cassandra write. > Say, I already have the following in the database - > (row_x,col_y,val1) > > Now if I try to insert > (row_x,col_y,val100), what will happen? > Will it overwrite the old data? > I m

one question about cassandra write

2010-08-06 Thread Maifi Khan
Hi I have a question about the internal of cassandra write. Say, I already have the following in the database - (row_x,col_y,val1) Now if I try to insert (row_x,col_y,val100), what will happen? Will it overwrite the old data? I mean, will it overwrite the data physically or will it keep both the o