We recently deployed in production a distributed system that uses Cassandra as its persistent storage. Not long after we noticed that there were many warnings about tombstones in Cassandra logs. WA...

Tombstones can be detected in logs and by monitoring specific metrics. Their lifespan is defined by the table setting gc_grace_seconds.Tune table settingsgc_grace_secondsThe default setting for the gc...

Deleting distributed and replicated data from a system such as Apache Cassandra is far trickier than in a relational database. The process of deletion becomes more interesting when we consider that Ca...

By on April 16, 2020Partners | < 1 MIN READWe built Kong to handle any API at any level of scale, but running APIs at scale means storing and managing data at scale. That’s why we’ve always recommend...

Click to learn more about author Akshay Pore. This is the second part of an on-going series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Kn...