[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.2.5 released

2013-05-19 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 1.2.5. Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. You can read more here: http://cassand

Repair of tombstones

2013-05-19 Thread Michael Theroux
There has been a lot of discussion on the list recently concerning issues with repair, runtime, etc. We recently have had issues with this cassandra bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4905 Basically, if you do regular staggered repairs, and you have tombstones that ca