Let me know if it help you, http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/dml/about_writes#about-deletes
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Andrea Gazzarini < andrea.gazzar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Cassandra 1.1.8 and today I saw in my keyspace a column family > with the following content > > > SELECT * FROM challenge; > KEY > ---------------------------- > 49feb2000100000a556522ed68 > 49feb2000100000a556522ed74 > 49feb2000100000a556522ed7a > 49feb2000100000a556522ed72 > 49feb2000100000a556522ed76 > 49feb2000100000a556522ed6a > 49feb2000100000a556522ed70 > 49feb2000100000a556522ed78 > 49feb2000100000a556522ed6e > 49feb2000100000a556522ed6c > > So, only rowkeys. > Yesterday those rows were there and I ran some deletions (exactly on those > rows). I'm using Hector > > *Mutator<byte []> mutator = HFactory.createMutator(keyspace, > BYTES_ARRAY_SERIALIZER)** > ** .addDeletion(challengeRowKey(...), CHALLENGE_COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME)* > .*execute();* > > This is a small development and test environment on a single machine / > single node so I don't believe the hardware details are relevant. > Probably I'm doing something stupid or I didn't get the point about how > things are working, but as far I understood the rows above are no valid... > column name and column value coordinates are missing so there are no valid > cells (rowkey / column name / column value)...is that right? > > I read about ghost reads but I think this is a scenario in a distribuited > environment...is that valid after one day and on a single Cassandra node?? > > Regards and thanks in advance, > Andrea >