Hi there, there is not such an operation in cassandra. The only thing which comes "close" is the TTL support which will "delete" columns after a given time. See:
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-expiring-columns Bye, Norman 2011/2/18 Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>: > The following is derived from the redis list operations. > > The data model is that a key maps to an list of items. The operation > is to push a new item into the front, and discard any items from the > end above a threshold number of items. > > of course, this can be done by reading a value, fiddling with it, and > writing it back. I write this email to wonder if there's any native > trickery to avoid having to read the value, but rather permitting some > sort of 'push' operation. >