Re: memtable and sstables

2015-09-05 Thread Jonathan Haddad
Technically there could be data in an sstable with a later time stamp than what exists in the memtable. Consider the use case of issuing a delete in the future to avoid race conditions. On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 10:42 AM Ray Sutton wrote: > This documentation from Datastax may be helpful to understa

Re: memtable and sstables

2015-09-05 Thread Ray Sutton
This documentation from Datastax may be helpful to understand the purpose of memtables and sstables. http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/dml/dml_write_path_c.html Ray On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 10:36 AM Anuj Wadehra wrote: > Memtables are for storing writes in memory till they are f

Re: memtable and sstables

2015-09-05 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Memtables are for storing writes in memory till they are flushed to disk as sstables and once flushed, space gets released from commit logs too.. If your are updating some columns only that data would be there in memtables not entire row..Dont think of memtables as row cache.. This is my under