> > What if the column is a counter ? Does it overwrite or increment ? Ie if > the SST I am loading has the exact same setup but value 2, will my value > change to 3 ? > > Counter columns only know how to increment (assuming no deletes), so you > will get 3. See > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/AbstractSSTableSimpleWriter.java#L153 > and > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CounterColumn.java#L138 > Great, so I assume that I can "add" the same counter column multiple times for the same key/SC in different nextRow() calls and the counter will still get incremented ? My use-case is that my bulk loading has data that's aggregated at a finer granularity than the data in cassandra.
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