[infinispan-dev] CassandraCacheStore

[Tristan Tarrant]

> > When purgeInternal is invoked I delete all rows which have a column in
> the range "Infinispan:expiration0000000000000000" to
> "Infinispan:expiration0paddednowtimestamp".
>
> Is this efficient from a Cassandra perspective?  Would this not involve a
> lot of String comparisons?
>

Cassandra stores columns adjacently according to a predefined user-defined
algorithm. Since all columns are going to be ordered by ascending expiration
this operation is quite quick.

Tristan
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