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Stu Hood reopened CASSANDRA-792: -------------------------------- Assignee: Stu Hood > Configurable 'merge factor' for Column Families > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-792 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-792 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Stu Hood > Assignee: Stu Hood > Fix For: 0.7 > > Attachments: > 0001-Use-logarithmic-bucket-sizes-and-always-compact-the-.patch, > 0002-Cap-memory-usage-for-all-SSTables-being-compacted.patch, > 0003-Hardcoded-per-cf-merge-factor.patch, 0004-Configurable-MergeFactor.patch > > > Apache Lucene flushes and merges 'segments' in a manner that is quite similar > to the treatment of Cassandra's sstables. > One interesting and powerful tunable that Lucene provides is 'mergeFactor': > EDIT: better link: > http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Lucene-trunk/javadoc/core/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.html#setMergeFactor(int) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.