Updates, inserts, and deletes are all treated the same... as writes! Any previous data will be obsoleted, and not immediately removed. Deletes and TTLs will create tombstones. Consider these points when building your data models. Avoid deleting data or writing data in place as much as possible, and build your tables to match specific query patterns.
Remember that every mutation is a write
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