Cassandra provides no means to generate identifiers upon inserting data.
As consequence, entities must be associated with identifier values.
Spring Data defaults to identifier inspection to determine whether an entity is new.
If you want to use xref:mongodb/auditing.adoc[auditing] make sure to either use xref:mongodb/template-crud-operations.adoc#mongo-template.optimistic-locking[Optimistic Locking] or implement `Persistable` for proper entity state detection.