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Data Storage and SSTables¶

Space Utilization Keeps Going Up During Normal Operation
Dropped (or truncated) Table (or keyspace) and Disk Space is not Reclaimed
SSTable Corruption Problem
There Are A Lot Of Single SSTable Compactions That Don’t Compact Anything
Compaction Takes Lots of Memory and CPU

More information on SSTables.

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