I know no paper, but here is some informations that might be of interest http://www.datastax.com/2015/12/storage-engine-30
Also Cassandra uses standard compression (LZ4, Snappy, Deflate) depending on user choice - for data storage https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/operations/opsAboutConfigCompress.html - for commitlogs --> https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml.html#configCassandra_yaml__commonProps-ph - for internode communication --> https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml.html#configCassandra_yaml__commonProps-ph - for client / server communication --> http://docs.datastax.com/en/drivers/java/3.0/com/datastax/driver/core/ProtocolOptions.Compression.html C*heers, ----------------- Alain Rodriguez France The Last Pickle http://www.thelastpickle.com 2016-02-18 10:26 GMT+01:00 Thouraya TH <thouray...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > Please, is there a scientific paper about this topic "How Cassandra reduce > the size of stored data on nodes and exchanged between nodes"? > > Thank you so much for help. > Best Regards. >