No. Consider a scenario where you supply a timestamp a week in the future,
flush it to sstable, and then do a write, with the current timestamp. The
record in disk will have a timestamp greater than the one in the memtable.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Donald Smith
On the cassandra irc channel I discussed this question. I learned that the
timestamp in the Memtable may be OLDER than the timestamp in some SSTable
(e.g., due to hints or retries). So there’s no guarantee that the Memtable has
the most recent version.
But there may be cases, they say, in
