Friday, January 19, 2018

Easy Data Purge in Cassandra

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Easy Data Purge in Cassandra
Easy Data Purge in Cassandra

Data purging is key to ensuring that your database servers always have enough free space to store the ever-incoming humongous business data. The operational/transactional database needs to be rid of old data that is no longer necessary as per your business rules.

Cassandra being one of the most popular databases, it does offer a really simplistic approach to support your data purge needs — that is, an expiration time for each of the records that go inside. The technique is known as TTL (time to live).

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