You should probably ask on the Cassandra user mailling list. However, TTL is the only other case I can think of.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Davide D'Agostino <i...@daddye.it> wrote: > Hi there, > > Following this: > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.datastax.com/forum/#!searchin/java-driver-user/tombstone/java-driver-user/cHE3OOSIXBU/moLXcif1zQwJ > > Under what conditions Cassandra generates a tombstone? > > Basically I have not even big table on cassandra (90M rows) in my code > there is no delete and I use prepared statements (but binding all necessary > values). > > I'm aware that a tombstone gets created when: > > 1. You delete the row > 2. You set a column to null while previously it had a value > 3. When you use prepared statements and you don't bind all the values > > Anything else that I should be aware of? > > Thanks! > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to java-driver-user+unsubscr...@lists.datastax.com. > -- [image: datastax_logo.png] <http://www.datastax.com/> Ryan Svihla Solution Architect [image: twitter.png] <https://twitter.com/foundev> [image: linkedin.png] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-svihla/12/621/727/> DataStax is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, delivering Apache Cassandra to the world’s most innovative enterprises. Datastax is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any size. With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay.
