Re: Instagram's "Anticolumn"

2014-09-07 Thread Raymond Lau
der in step 4 would instead obtain V0 as the value of key = (1, 'whatever') and the anti-column value would match the hash of the data column value, in which case they would know that data has been deleted and they should ignore it. Cheers, Ian On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Ray

Instagram's "Anticolumn"

2014-09-07 Thread Raymond Lau
So I watched Instagram’s presentation about Cassandra and how they handle undos/deletes (http://youtu.be/xDtclzE4ydA?t=12m55s) and how to get around the race condition that a get-before-write causes.   They use this anti-column that stores an action where the first component of the composite co