Just make month time stamp a part of row key. Then once a month select old data, move it and delete.
Andrey On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:08 AM, <stephen.m.thomp...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > Hi folks. Still working through the details of building out a Cassandra > solution and I have an interesting requirement that I’m not sure how to > implement in Cassandra:**** > > ** ** > > In our current Oracle world, we have the data for this system partitioned > by month, and each month the data that are now 18-months old are archived > to tape/cold storage and then the partition for that month is dropped. Is > there a way to do something similar with Cassandra without destroying our > overall performance?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks in advance,**** > > Steve**** >