Riak CS stores data chunks in bitcask and the index/metadata file in leveldb.
Bitcask, as noted, has no compression. When you force Riak to use level for the
data chunks you get compression for that data which may or may not be good for
your use case. If it's not good for your use case I believe
Hi Riak Users,
I am in the process of migrating a few Riak CS clusters from mutli to
leveldb backend. I am aware this is not an officially supported
configuration, but I feel it will be better for my (very limited) hardware
constraints, especially RAM, and I am not too concerned about the lower
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