Short answers:
- compaction - Initiate immediate full compaction. Removes deleted data.
- clean - Initiates immediate cleanup i.e. remove the data that is deleted
and that doesn't belong to this node. Internally performs full compaction.
- repair - Used to make different copies (replicas) of data c
I'm a little unclear on the differences between the nodetool operations:
- compaction
- repair
- clean
I understand that compaction consolidates the SSTables and physically performs
deletes by taking into account the Tombstones. But what does clean and repair
do then?