On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:31 AM Steinmaurer, Thomas < thomas.steinmau...@dynatrace.com> wrote:
> As far as I remember, in newer Cassandra versions, with STCS, nodetool > compact offers a ‘-s’ command-line option to split the output into files > with 50%, 25% … in size, thus in this case, not a single largish SSTable > anymore. By default, without -s, it is a single SSTable though. > Thanks Thomas, I've also spotted the option while testing this approach. I understand that doing major compactions is generally not recommended, but do you see any real drawback of having a single SSTable file in case we stopped writing new data to the table? -- Alex
