Hello Kevin
You can disable compaction by configuring the compaction options of your
table as follow:
compaction={'min_threshold': '0', 'class':
'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy', 'max_threshold': '0'}
Regards
Duy Hai DOAN
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at storing log data in Cassandra…
>
> Every record is a unique timestamp for the key, and then the log line for
> the value.
>
> I think it would be best to just disable compactions.
>
> - there will never be any deletes.
>
> - all the data will be accessed in time range (probably partitioned
> randomly) and sequentially.
>
> So every time a memtable flushes, we will just keep that SSTable forever.
>
> Compacting the data is kind of redundant in this situation.
>
> I was thinking the best strategy is to use setcompactionthreshold and set
> the value VERY high to compactions are never triggered.
>
> Also, It would be IDEAL to be able to tell cassandra to just drop a full
> SSTable so that I can truncate older data without having to do a major
> compaction and without having to mark everything with a tombstone. Is this
> possible?
>
>
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