Consider taking a look at Aaron Morton's dive into the C* 3.0 storage engine.
http://thelastpickle.com/blog/2016/03/04/introductiont-to-the-apache-cassandra-3-storage-engine.html On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:38 AM Jim Witschey <jim.witsc...@datastax.com> wrote: > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureSSTable > > Be aware that this page hasn't been updated since 2013, so it doesn't > reflect any changes to the SSTable format since then, including the > new storage engine introduced in 3.0 (see CASSANDRA-8099). > > That said, I believe the linked Apache wiki page is the best > documentation for the format. Unfortunately, if you want a better or > more current understanding, you'll have to read the code and read some > SSTables. >
