I’ve had SSTables as big as 11TB. It works, read performance is fine. But, compaction is hell, because you’ll need twice that in disk space and it will take many hours 🙂
Avoid large SSTables unless you really know what you’re doing. LCS is a great default for almost every workload, especially if your cluster has a single large table. STCS is the actual Cassandra default but it often causes more trouble than it solves, because of large SSTables 🙂 Hope that helps! Tom On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 at 08:02, Lucas Benevides <lu...@maurobenevides.com.br> wrote: > Hello Community, > > Is there a maximum SSTable Size? > If there is not, does it go up to the maximum Operational System values? > > Thanks in advance, > Lucas Benevides > -- Tom van der Woerdt Site Reliability Engineer Booking.com B.V. Vijzelstraat 66-80 Amsterdam 1017HL Netherlands Direct +31207153426 [image: Booking.com] <https://www.booking.com/> The world's #1 accommodation site 43 languages, 198+ offices worldwide, 120,000+ global destinations, 1,550,000+ room nights booked every day No booking fees, best price always guaranteed Subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG)
