Also to answer your question, LCS is well suited to workloads where
overwrites and tombstones come into play. The tombstones are _much_ more
likely to be merged with LCS than STCS.
I would be careful with the patch that was referred to above, it hasn't
been reviewed, and from a glance it appears that it will cause an infinite
compaction loop if you get more than 4 SSTables at max size.
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Brandon Williams <driftx@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Aaron Turner <synfinatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are also ways to bring up a test node and just run Level
> Compaction on
> > that. Wish I had a URL handy, but hopefully someone else can find it.
>
> This rather handsome fellow wrote a blog about it:
>
> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-1-live-traffic-sampling
>
> -Brandon
>
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