On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:29 AM, DE VITO Dominique < [email protected]> wrote:
> ** > > Is compression working for whatever column value type ? in all cases ?**** > > ** ** > > For example, if my CF has columns with value type of byte[] (or “blob” > when speaking CQL), is C* still doing compression ? > Yes, compression is always on by default. Note that SSTable compression is block-based and there's a fair amount of metadata in the SSTable that compression can work on even if your column values aren't highly compressable. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
