Hello Everybody, Happy Christmas.
I know that this topic has come up quiet a few times on Dev and User lists but did not culminate into a solution. http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg15367.html The above discussion on User list talks about AbstractCompactionStrategy but I could not find any relevant documentation as its a fairly new feature in Cassandra. Let me state this necessity and use-case again. I need a ColumnFamily (CF) wide or SuperColumn (SC) wide option to approximately limit the number of columns to "n". "n" can vary a lot and the intention is to throw away stale data and not to maintain any hard limit on the CF or SC. Its very useful for storing time-series data where stale data is not necessary. The goal is to achieve this with minimum overhead and since compaction happens all the time it would be clever to implement it as part of compaction. Thanks in advance. Praveen
