Question-190:  You have enabled leveled compaction strategy for one of your table and  it is there since last 3 months.  You have found that the SSTable size is more than 200 GB now. Because of this table is not getting compacted since last 30 days. What would you do in this situation?

  1. You would change the compaction strategy to SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.
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Ans : C

Exp : Sometimes what happens when you use compaction strategy like STCS or  LTCS,  it is possible that SSTable size become very huge. And it cannot be considered for next many compaction cycles. To avoid such type of issues, we need to split the SSTables and which can be done using the sstablesplit  command.

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