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How do I disable autocompaction in `cassandra.yaml`?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47837940/260805 hints that it should be possible. I would like to disable it for a longer period of times (~2 days) when enabling incremental repairs.

Solution

  • (Disclaimer: I'm a ScyllaDB employee)

    As far as I know you can disable autocompaction in the following ways:

    1. For a column family (Table), by setting its strategy to NullCompactionStrategy. (I think this one is supported only in Scylla, but not in Cassandra)
    2. Using nodetool: $ nodetool <options> disableautocompaction -- <keyspace> <table> ... (I think this one is supported only in Cassandra, but not in Scylla)