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 <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@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 > -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company
