On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:38 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: >> At what point does compression start ? > It starts for new SSTables created after the schema was altered.
@OP : If you want to compress all existing SSTables, use "upgradesstables" or "cleanup", both of which rewrite existing SSTables 1:1. =Rob
