Hi, I'm fairly new to Cassandra and started to set up a small cluster for playing around and evaluating it for my potential purposes.
As far as I understand I can't remove whole rows - instead the columns of a deleted rows are removed and a client can decided based on the row's column count if it treats a part of a returned slice as deleted or not. Those empty rows are referenced as a Tombstone in Cassandras terminology- right? Is there any way to force the sync/garbage collection of the deletion of the such empty rows? Reading the mailinglist, this behaviour is relating to the weak consistency of Cassandra. What I don't understand is, why is it possible to remove the columns of a row, but not the whole row? Could you give me some further reading on this topic? Thanks! SJ
