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Subject: Re: Purge Data
From: Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1234@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:59:28 -0500
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Have you looked at the TTL column feature in 0.7?=20
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-expiring-columns

Those will automatically expire columns after a certain time period - =
not when you near the column limit, but might be helpful for you.

On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Bahadur, Kamal wrote:

> =46rom the documentation, I came to know that there is a limitation of =
maximum number (2 billion) of columns that a column family can have. My =
questions is, is there a way to purge the old columns when the number of =
columns is nearing the 2 billion mark?
> =20
> Thanks,
> Kamal