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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:02PM (#17159723)
Yeah, this sort of thing is like a pessimistic case for Cassandra and various databases that are designed to model data as an immutable set of facts and to model deletions as retractions or the like.
Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by Dylan16807 on Friday May 25, 2018 @10:09PM (#17159757)
Apparently it defaults to 10 days for tombstone purging and recommends not going below 5 days. How bad is performance actually going to be at a nice slow several-day compaction rate?

The pessimistic case sounds like trying to remove things within hours.