Hi! I'm bulkloading via streaming from Hadoop to my Cassandra cluster. This results in a rather large set of relatively small (~1MiB) sstables as the number of mappers that generate sstables on the hadoop cluster is high.
With SizeTieredCompactionStrategy, the cassandra cluster would quickly compact all these small sstables into decently sized sstables. With LeveledCompactionStrategy however, it takes a much longer time. I have multithreaded_compaction: true, but it is only taking on 32 sstables at a time in one single compaction task, so when it starts with ~1500 sstables, it takes quite some time. I'm not running out of I/O. Is there some configuration knob I can tune to make this happen faster? I'm getting a bit confused by the description for min_sstable_size, bucket_high, bucket_low etc - and I'm not sure if they apply in this case. I'm pondering options for decreasing the number of sstables being streamed from the hadoop side, but if that is possible remains to be seen. Thanks! \EF
