RE: how to choose tombstone_failure_threshold value if I want to delete billions of entries?

2020-11-20 Thread Durity, Sean R
Tombstone_failure_threshold is only for reads. If the tombstones are in different partitions, and you aren’t doing cross-partition reads, you shouldn’t need to adjust that value. If disk space recovery is the goal, it depends on how available you need the data to be. The faster way is probably

how to choose tombstone_failure_threshold value if I want to delete billions of entries?

2020-11-20 Thread Pushpendra Rajpoot
Hi Team, I have a table having approx 15 billions entries and I want to delete approx 13 billions entries from it. I cannot write 13 billion tombstones in one go since there is a disk space crunch. I am planning to delete data in chunks so I will be creating 400 millions tombstones in one go. No