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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-1608: ------------------------------------------- bq. This is probably the best option, create a new component type: METADATA_STORE which will hold namespaced key/value pairs on a per-sstable basis We've been sticking metadata into the statistics component, fwiw. It's easier to leave the filename the same, but it's definitely not just statistics anymore. > Redesigned Compaction > --------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-1608 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1608 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core > Reporter: Chris Goffinet > > After seeing the I/O issues in CASSANDRA-1470, I've been doing some more > thinking on this subject that I wanted to lay out. > I propose we redo the concept of how compaction works in Cassandra. At the > moment, compaction is kicked off based on a write access pattern, not read > access pattern. In most cases, you want the opposite. You want to be able to > track how well each SSTable is performing in the system. If we were to keep > statistics in-memory of each SSTable, prioritize them based on most accessed, > and bloom filter hit/miss ratios, we could intelligently group sstables that > are being read most often and schedule them for compaction. We could also > schedule lower priority maintenance on SSTable's not often accessed. > I also propose we limit the size of each SSTable to a fix sized, that gives > us the ability to better utilize our bloom filters in a predictable manner. > At the moment after a certain size, the bloom filters become less reliable. > This would also allow us to group data most accessed. Currently the size of > an SSTable can grow to a point where large portions of the data might not > actually be accessed as often. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira