On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> java8964, basically are you asking that what will happen if we put large > amount of data in one column of one row at once? How will this blob of data > representing one column and one row i.e. cell will be split into multiple > SSTable? Or in such particular cases it will always be one extra large > SSTable? I am also interesting in knowing the answer. > A memtable is flushed to a single SSTable at whatever size it is as a memtable. You cannot have a memtable larger than (a portion of) your JVM heap. =Rob
