No worries!  They're a data type that was introduced in 1.2:
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3_collections

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Nikolay Mihaylov <n...@nmmm.nu> wrote:

> Hi Tyler,
>
> sorry for very stupid question - what is a collection ?
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote:
>
>> Overwriting an entire collection also results in a tombstone being
>> inserted.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Ryan Svihla <rsvi...@datastax.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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!
>>>>
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