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what do you mean by compaction?

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what do you mean by compaction?..

Answer / Akshay Gupta

Compaction in Cassandra refers to the process of merging SSTables (sorted string tables) to reduce the storage space, improve query performance and maintain the data consistency. Compaction ensures that the merged data maintains the ordering of columns.

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