Keeping Deleted Cells
- ColumnFamilies can optionally keep deleted cells. That means deleted cells can still be retrieved with
- Get or
- Scan operations,
- as long these operations have a time range specified that ends before the timestamp of any delete that would affect the cells.
+ By default delete markers extends back to the beginning of time. That means that Get or
+ Scan operations will not see a deleted cell (row or column), even when they indicate a timerange before the delete marker.
+ ColumnFamilies can optionally keep deleted cells. That means deleted cells can still be retrieved, as long these operations have a time range specified that ends before the timestamp of any delete that would affect the cells.
This allows for point in time queries even in the presence of deletes.