On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Anuj Wadehra <anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> By automatic tombstone compaction, I am referring to tombstone_threshold > sub property under compaction strategy in CQL. It is 0.2 by default. So > what I understand from the Datastax documentation is that even if a sstable > does not find sstables of similar size (STCS) , an automatic tombstone > compaction will trigger on sstable when 20% data is tombstone. This > compaction works on single sstable only. > Overall system behavior is discussed here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6654?focusedCommentId=13914587&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13914587 They are talking about LCS, but the principles apply, but with an overlay of how STS behaves. =Rob