Notes

Cassandra Compaction Strategies

March 5, 2017

When setting up Cassandra tables, you should specify the compaction strategy Cassandra should use to store data internally. To do so, just add

WITH compaction = { 'class': '<compactionName>' }

to an ALTER TABLE or CREATE TABLE command.

Name Acronym Used For
SizeTieredCompactionStrategy STCS Insert-Heavy Tables
LeveledCompactionStrategy LCS Read-Heavy Tables
DateTieredCompactionStrategy DTCS Time Series Data