On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Aditya Narayan <ady...@gmail.com> wrote: > so this means that in memtable only the most recent version of a > column will reside?
The most recent version seen since the memtable was opened, which may not be the most recent version ever. > For this implementation, while writing "to > memtable" Cassandra will see if there are other versions and will > overwrite them (reconcilation while writing) !? Only versions in the same memtable. It doesn't look at versions already flushed. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com