In this post we’ll explore a new compaction strategy available in Apache Cassandra. We’ll dig into it’s use cases, limitations, and share our experiences of using it with various production clusters.
Time Window Compaction Strategy : how does it work and when should you use it ? Cassandra uses a Log Structured Merge Tree engine, which allows high write throughput by flushing immutable chunks of data, in the form of SSTables, to disk and deferring consistency on the read phase.