I believe you can use “USING TIMESTAMP XXX” with your inserts which will set the actual cell write times to the timestamp you provide. Then at least on read you’ll get the “latest” value… you may or may not incur an actual write of the old data to disk, but either way it’ll get cleaned up for you.
> On Jan 21, 2015, at 1:54 AM, Pandian R <pandian4m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just wanted to know if there is any kind of versioning system in cassandra > while indexing new data(like the one we have for ElasticSearch, for example). > > For example, I have a series of payloads each coming with an id and > 'updatedAt' timestamp. I just want to maintain the latest state of any > payload for all the ids ie, index the data only if the current payload has > greater 'updatedAt' than the previously stored timestamp. I can do this with > one additional self-lookup, but is there a way to achieve this without > overhead of additional lookup ? > > Thanks ! > > -- > Regards, > Pandian
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