so searching google for "cassandra leveled compaction" there are no hits for explaining 2.x leveled compaction.
The first hit is: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/leveled-compaction-in-apache-cassandra which is a blog post from 2011. The second hit is documentation on 1.1 which has just 2 sentences on leveled compaction. The 3rd is a blog post from 2012: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/when-to-use-leveled-compaction .. I guess the resolution here is to take the blog posts, put them in the documentation, and make sure to keep updating them as the product evolves. I have no way of really knowing if blog posts from 2011 are accurate representations of the code from 2014. … especially since a significant % of this old documentation is inaccurate. -- Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com Location: *San Francisco, CA* blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com … or check out my Google+ profile <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts> <http://spinn3r.com>