What exactly happens when tombstone limit is reached

Question

According to cassandra\'s log (see below) queries are getting aborted due to too many tombstones being present. This is happening because once a week I cleanup (del

Answer 1

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Clean up tombstones by ensuring gc_grace_seconds is set to run at a more frequent time to suit your application or use TTLs for certain data. For example the default gc_grace_seconds is 864000 (10 days). If your TTL data is set to 6 days then you might want to change gc_grace_seconds to 604800 (7 days) to remove tombstones sooner.

https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/204612559-ReadTimeoutException-seen-when-using-the-java-driver-caused-by-excessive-tombstones

cqlsh:results> alter table example with gc_grace_seconds = 10000;

Regards,

Ali