RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tombstone

[Rahul Singh]

Queues can be implemented in Cassandra even though everyone believes its an 
“anti-pattern” if the design is designed for Cassandra’s model.

In this case, I would do a logical / soft delete on the data to invalidate it 
from a query that accesses it and put a TTL on the data so it deletes 
automatically later. You could have a default TTL or set a TTL on on your 
actual “delete” which would put the delete in the future for example 3 days 
from now.

Some sources of inspiration on how people have been doing queues on Cassandra

cherami by Uber
CMB by Comcast
cassieq — don’t remember.



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Rahul Singh
rahul.si...@anant.us

Anant Corporation
On Jun 19, 2018, 12:39 PM -0400, Durity, Sean R , 
wrote:
> This sounds like a queue pattern, which is typically an anti-pattern for 
> Cassandra. I would say that it is very difficult to get the access patterns, 
> tombstones, and everything else lined up properly to solve a queue problem.
>
>
> Sean Durity
>
> From: Abhishek Singh 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 10:41 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tombstone
>
>                        The Partition key is made of datetime(basically date 
> truncated to hour) and bucket.I think your RCA may be correct since we are 
> deleting the partition rows one by one not in a batch files maybe overlapping 
> for the particular partition.A scheduled thread picks the rows for a 
> partition based on current datetime and bucket number and checks whether for 
> each row the entiry is past due or not, if yes we trigger a event and remove 
> the entry.
>
>
>
> On Tue 19 Jun, 2018, 7:58 PM Jeff Jirsa,  wrote:
> > The most likely explanation is tombstones in files that won’t be collected 
> > as they potentially overlap data in other files with a lower timestamp 
> > (especially true if your partition key doesn’t change and you’re writing 
> > and deleting data within a partition)
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Jirsa
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 19, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Abhishek Singh  wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >            We using Cassandra for storing events which are time series 
> > >based for batch processing once a particular batch based on hour is 
> > >processed we delete the entries but we were left with almost 18% deletes 
> > >marked as Tombstones.
> > >                  I ran compaction on the particular CF tombstone didn't 
> > >come down.
> > >             Can anyone suggest what is the optimal tunning/recommended 
> > >practice used for compaction strategy and GC_grace period with 100k 
> > >entries and deletes every hour.
> > >
> > > Warm Regards
> > > Abhishek Singh
> >
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RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tombstone

[Durity, Sean R]

This sounds like a queue pattern, which is typically an anti-pattern for 
Cassandra. I would say that it is very difficult to get the access patterns, 
tombstones, and everything else lined up properly to solve a queue problem.


Sean Durity

From: Abhishek Singh 
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 10:41 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tombstone

   The Partition key is made of datetime(basically date 
truncated to hour) and bucket.I think your RCA may be correct since we are 
deleting the partition rows one by one not in a batch files maybe overlapping 
for the particular partition.A scheduled thread picks the rows for a partition 
based on current datetime and bucket number and checks whether for each row the 
entiry is past due or not, if yes we trigger a event and remove the entry.



On Tue 19 Jun, 2018, 7:58 PM Jeff Jirsa, 
mailto:jji...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The most likely explanation is tombstones in files that won’t be collected as 
they potentially overlap data in other files with a lower timestamp (especially 
true if your partition key doesn’t change and you’re writing and deleting data 
within a partition)

--
Jeff Jirsa


> On Jun 19, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Abhishek Singh 
> mailto:abh23...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>We using Cassandra for storing events which are time series based 
> for batch processing once a particular batch based on hour is processed we 
> delete the entries but we were left with almost 18% deletes marked as 
> Tombstones.
>  I ran compaction on the particular CF tombstone didn't come 
> down.
> Can anyone suggest what is the optimal tunning/recommended 
> practice used for compaction strategy and GC_grace period with 100k entries 
> and deletes every hour.
>
> Warm Regards
> Abhishek Singh

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